Comments on: Being in love with being in love?

Question: Being in love with being in love?

mckenney — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:23:01 -0800

Is there a term for being in love with the concept of love?

Back when I was in ninth grade, we were reading Romeo and Juliet, and my teacher went over some literary terms and descriptions (like Aristotelian tragedy, deus ex machina, etc.). One of them was a specific term or description of someone who is in love with the idea of being in love. I remember thinking it was a great word or term, and that I shouldn't forget it, but bam, there it is, forgotten. Anyone know what it is? Google fails me, and I am starting to think I just dreamed it.

By: amro

amro — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:26:33 -0800

Petrarchan lover?

By: interrobang

interrobang — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:31:41 -0800

Was it "courtly love"?

By: milkrate

milkrate — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:32:22 -0800

The simple Greek root mashup for "philophilia" shows up with the definition in google searches, but it really doesn't sound like a word any of my English teachers would've used.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:39:55 -0800

"But I haven't learned yet
What love may be
But I love to love
And love being loved
And that is a whole lot
Of unlearnedness."

By: mckenney

mckenney — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:41:23 -0800

Petrarchan lover sounds like it would be right, and after googling it, it would make sense that it would come up in English class.

You guys are awesome.

By: Methylviolet

Methylviolet — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:44:43 -0800

Ludus?

By: briank

briank — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:46:01 -0800

I dunno, but Rodgers and Hart wrote a song about it.

By: ontic

ontic — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:16:29 -0800

Philophilia?

By: timepiece

timepiece — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:33:09 -0800

One of my teachers used that ("in love with love") as the definition of infatuation.

By: pazazygeek

pazazygeek — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:39:47 -0800

I had heard the term "erotomania", but looking it up on the internets, it appears that's more about being under the delusion that someone is in love with you who actually isn't.

By: dragonsi55

dragonsi55 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:23:59 -0800

Hopeless romantic.

By: Corky

Corky — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:51:41 -0800

My ex-husband. In love with the idea of being in love. As soon as reality crept in, he was off on his next adventure. Meh.

By: altcountryman

altcountryman — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:40:40 -0800

Isn't there a song about the "love jones?"