Infatuation vs. Love
People are often confused about their feelings and are unable to differentiate that whether they have developed a temporary passionate affection for someone or it is long lasting love. One is not having proper knowledge of Infatuation usually mix it up with love, but in actual, the concept of both is different and even contradict each other. Infatuation is referred as a temporary passionate feeling that carries away a person totally and blows his or her mind due to a certain characteristic or quality of others. Currently, youth relationships at their initial basis are often infatuation is which they are attracted towards each other passionately due to a single central trait which is usually sex. On the other hand, love is a long lasting positive feeling that is in between people that are emotionally connected and care for each other.
Key Differences
Infatuation is temporary passionate feelings due to a single specific trait.
Love is permanent.
Harlon Moss
Jul 03, 2017
Infatuation mentally destroys the person.
Samantha Walker
Jul 03, 2017
Love stabilize the person and develop confidence along with overall personality.
Janet White
Jul 03, 2017
Infatuation is temporary.
Love is long-lasting gradually developing feelings of affection.
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Comparison Chart
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Infatuations are regarded as the temporary passionate feelings in which one completely is lost on a particular trait with unknown desire.
Love is the feeling of affection between individuals, it is long-lasting and is the base of every long-term relation. It is depicted by caring and sacrificing.
Feelings
A person having infatuation of some kind is quite aggressive and passionate about it. It is a feeling like drugs, and the person can risk everything and can go to any extent due to temporary passion and lust.
Feelings of love are quite positive in nature. It gradually takes place. It gives confidence to each other. It covers feelings of care, respect, assertiveness and selflessness. It can be between friends, family, etc.
Symptoms
Passionate, high risk taking deeds, perseverance, intense behavior, sexual attraction, etc.
Sincerity, faithfulness, loyalty, trust, confidence, compromises, selflessness, respecting each other and sacrificing for each other.
Effects
A person lost all his or her basic abilities to differentiate between good and bad. Failed rational evaluation. Cogitative control over affection.
Love effects always in a positive way. It grooms the person and his or her personality. It provides stability and confidence along with focus.
Aimie Carlson
Jul 03, 2017
Person to Person
Passionate commitment, solid affection overcoming every other thing in the world. It is usually regarding the sexual desire or lust.
Fair commitment with pure, healthy intentions. Taking care of other person feeling more.
Samantha Walker
Jul 03, 2017
Results In
Depression, loneliness, anxiety, etc.
Confidence, happiness, stability, etc.
Harlon Moss
Jul 03, 2017
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Time Span
It is for quite short time and wipes out as it never existed causing negative effects.
The feeling of love keeps of getting stronger and stronger with the passage of time.
Samantha Walker
Jul 03, 2017
Level of Patience
There is nothing like patience in infatuation.
Love is the second name of patience. It is a gradual feeling that initiates slowly.
Interdependency
Interdependence is affected big time. A person always wants to be near to that person.
Love makes way for interdependency. The individual gives space to each other.
Level of Commitment
It is a passionate commitment for a temporary period.
One can remain committed throughout the life.
Harlon Moss
Jul 03, 2017
Conclusion
Infatuation is moreover like an illusion and is fake in nature.
The feeling of love is unrestricted and unconditional.
Infatuation and Love Definitions
Infatuation
To inspire with unreasoning love or attachment.
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Love
A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.
Infatuation
To cause to behave foolishly.
Love
A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.
Infatuation
Infatuated.
Love
A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.
Infatuation
An immensely strong love or sexual attraction.
Love
A feeling of kindness or concern by God or a god toward humans.
Infatuation
(obsolete) The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; madness.
Love
Often Love(Christianity) Charity.
Infatuation
Something which infatuates.
Love
Sexual desire or activity
The pleasures of love.
A night of love.
Infatuation
The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so.
Such is the infatuation of self-love.
Love
An instance of being in love
Teenage loves can be as fleeting as they are intense.
Infatuation
Foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
Love
A person for whom one has strong feelings of affection
She met her new love at the restaurant.
Infatuation
Temporary love of an adolescent
Love
Used as a term of endearment for such a person.
Infatuation
An object of extravagant short-lived passion
Love
An intense emotional attachment to something, as to a pet or treasured object.
Love
An expression of one's affection
Send him my love.
Love
A strong predilection or enthusiasm
A love of language.
Love for the game of golf.
Love
The object of such an enthusiasm
The outdoors is her greatest love.
Love
Love(Mythology) Eros or Cupid.
Love
(Sports) A score of zero, as in tennis.
Love
To feel love for (a person)
We love our parents. I love my friends.
Love
To feel sexual love for (a person).
Love
To feel devotion to (God or a god).
Love
To feel or show kindness or concern to (a person). Used of God or a god.
Love
To have an intense emotional attachment to
Loves his house.
Love
To embrace or caress
They were loving each other on the sofa.
Love
To have sexual intercourse with.
Love
To like or desire enthusiastically
Loves swimming.
Love
To thrive on; need
The cactus loves hot, dry air.
Love
To feel love or sexual love for another.
Love
(uncountable) A deep caring for the existence of another.
Love
(uncountable) Strong affection.
Love
A profound and caring affection towards someone.
A mother’s love is not easily shaken.
My husband’s love is the most important thing in my life.
Love
Affectionate, benevolent concern or care for other people or beings, and for their well-being.
Love
A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.
I have never been in love as much as I have with you.
Love
A deep or abiding liking for something; an enthusiasm for something.
My love of cricket knows no bounds.
Love
(countable) A person who is the object of romantic feelings; a darling, a sweetheart, a beloved.
Love
A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
Hello love, how can I help you?
Love
A thing, activity, etc. which is the object of one's deep liking or enthusiasm.
Love
(euphemistic) Sexual desire; attachment based on sexual attraction.
Love
(euphemistic) Sexual activity.
Love
An instance or episode of being in love; a love affair.
Love
Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members, or by the young.
Love
(obsolete) A thin silk material.
Love
A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
Love
Zero, no score.
So that’s fifteen-love to Kournikova.
Love
Nothing; no recompense.
Love
To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
I love my spouse.
I love you!
I love that song!
Love
(transitive) To need, thrive on.
Mold loves moist, dark places.
Love
(transitive) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
I love walking barefoot on wet grass;
I'd love to join the team;
I love what you've done with your hair
Love
To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
Love
(transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
I love the fact that the coffee shop now offers fat-free chai latte.
Love
To have sex with (perhaps from make love).
I wish I could love her all night long.
Love
A feeling of strong attachment induced by that which delights or commands admiration; preëminent kindness or devotion to another; affection; tenderness; as, the love of brothers and sisters.
Of all the dearest bonds we proveThou countest sons' and mothers' loveMost sacred, most Thine own.
Love
Especially, devoted attachment to, or tender or passionate affection for, one of the opposite sex.
He on his sideLeaning half-raised, with looks of cordial loveHung over her enamored.
Love
Courtship; - chiefly in the phrase to make love, i. e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage.
Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena,And won her soul.
Love
Affection; kind feeling; friendship; strong liking or desire; fondness; good will; - opposed to hate; often with of and an object.
Love, and health to all.
Smit with the love of sacred song.
The love of science faintly warmed his breast.
Love
Due gratitude and reverence to God.
Keep yourselves in the love of God.
Love
The object of affection; - often employed in endearing address; as, he held his love in his arms; his greatest love was reading.
Open the temple gates unto my love.
Love
Cupid, the god of love; sometimes, Venus.
Such was his form as painters, when they showTheir utmost art, on naked Lores bestow.
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love.
Love
A thin silk stuff.
Love
A climbing species of Clematis (Clematis Vitalba).
Love
Nothing; no points scored on one side; - used in counting score at tennis, etc.
He won the match by three sets to love.
Love
Sexual intercourse; - a euphemism.
A little western flower,Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound;And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Love
To have a feeling of love for; to regard with affection or good will; as, to love one's children and friends; to love one's country; to love one's God.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self.
Love
To regard with passionate and devoted affection, as that of one sex for the other.
Love
To take delight or pleasure in; to have a strong liking or desire for, or interest in; to be pleased with; to like; as, to love books; to love adventures.
Wit, eloquence, and poetry.Arts which I loved.
Love
To have the feeling of love; to be in love.
Love
A strong positive emotion of regard and affection;
His love for his work
Children need a lot of love
Love
Any object of warm affection or devotion;
The theater was her first love
He has a passion for cock fighting
Love
A beloved person; used as terms of endearment
Love
A deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction;
Their love left them indifferent to their surroundings
She was his first love
Love
A score of zero in tennis or squash;
It was 40 love
Love
Sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people;
His lovemaking disgusted her
He hadn't had any love in months
He has a very complicated love life
Love
Have a great affection or liking for;
I love French food
She loves her boss and works hard for him
Love
Get pleasure from;
I love cooking
Love
Be enamored or in love with;
She loves her husband deeply
Love
Have sexual intercourse with;
This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
Adam knew Eve
Were you ever intimate with this man?
What is Infatuation?
Infatuation is referred towards the temporary passionate feelings that blow away everything at once, and the person falls for a single specific trait and is recklessly intense in nature. Feelings of infatuations are often mixed and confused with the feelings of love. Some people consider Infatuation as the initial step of love. It can sometimes be, and infatuation can further change into love, but most of the time this does not happen. Love is gradual process whereas infatuation is more like the attraction at first sight or glance. Currently, the youth and their temporary lustful relations are clear depictions of the infatuation concept. Infatuation refers towards the immaturity. Infatuation is strong, passionate feeling in which a person lost his or her all other senses, he or she is not able to differentiate between good and bad. Even minor rational evaluation is not possible for the person possessing the feelings of Infatuation. Two person having the feelings of infatuation are temporarily attracted towards each other due to a particular trait in each other, and that is sexual desire most of the time. Lustful feeling with passion, recklessness, and anxiety are involved in Infatuation. A person always wants to be with that specific person. It wipes out soon totally as it was never existed causing depression and other negative effects.
What is Love?
Love, on the other hand, is a gradual feeling of affection that is slowly developed for a person. The feeling of love develops the personality of the person. Love is the feelings that make people feel for others, care for their loved ones, live for their loved ones and scarifies for their sake. It is always positive in nature and has positive effects. It is long- lasting feelings that last forever. The commitment is permanent, and people compromise for the sake of each other’s will. Infatuation on early stages if remains positive and slows down can be converted into love too.
