Infatuation vs Love - Difference and Comparison

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	Infatuation	Love
Associated with:	Physical outlook mostly	Emotional and intellectual compatibility
Sub-Categories:	Physical desire, crush	Lust, Romantic Love, Attachment
Feelings associated with:	Extreme happiness, excitement	Elation or a euphoric feeling, Loss of appetite
Interdependency:	Cannot sustain without element of physical attraction and love.	Cannot sustain without lust
Meaning:	A feeling of being in love with another person.	A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
Definition:	Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or love; addictive love.	Constellation of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness
Attribute:	Expects the same feeling in return.	Not expecting anything in return and desiring the best for the other person
Symptoms:	urgency, intensity, sexual desire, anxiety	Connection of your soul with someone else's. It's settling your differences, dealing with conflicts as one person, not two seperate entities. It's sharing your life experience & being the other person's friend. Love is pure & comes without decision
Stimulants:		Dopamine, Norepinephrine(Adrenaline), Serotonin, Oxytocin, Vasopressin
Person to Person:		Two working together to make it work

Love are Infatuation are both intense emotions that one feels for another person. These feelings are most often confused for each other by many people. But the two feelings differ in their actuality of love, intensity and final outcome.

1 About
- 1.1 Dictionary Meaning
2 Symptoms
3 Attributes
4 Causes
5 Feeling
6 Separation
7 Commitment
8 Age
9 References

[edit] About

Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or love; addictive love. Infatuation usually occurs at the beginning of relationship when sexual attraction is central. Love can be described as feeling of intense affection for another person. It is most often talked about as an emotion between two persons. Hence is also sometimes referred to as interpersonal love.

[edit] Dictionary Meaning

As a noun, Love is described as:

a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
sexual passion or desire.
a person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart.
(used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?

As a noun, infatuation is described as

a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
temporary love of an adolescent
an object of extravagant short-lived passion

[edit] Symptoms

The foremost symptom of being infatuated by a person is wanting to be around that person. This may sometimes also be sexual desire. Other symptoms may be anxiety, panic, jealousy etc. Love, on the other hand, may start with an infatuation or lust and then become love. Symptoms of love are emotional attachment with someone, a feeling of anxiety, affection.

[edit] Attributes

Love can happen without one's intentions and hence pure love doesn't expect anything in return. Infatuation, though, comes with a feeling of passion. It may start with physical attraction and may render excitement to be around a person. Love comes with passion as well as intimacy. Love is also tolerant and forgiving while Infatuation may invoke jealousy. Infatuation induces impatience while Love is patient.

[edit] Causes

There may or may not be any reason to fall in love. It comes with mixed emotions and may be caused by physical attraction, intellectual and emotional compatibility. Infatuation, on the other hand, may start with physical attraction and gives a feeling of being in love.

[edit] Feeling

Infatuation feels like being in love but it is not. The intensity of the emotion is strong but not pure enough like love.

Love is the quiet understanding and mature acceptance of imperfection. Love is always associated with connection between two souls that goes beyond the self. Infatuation may make the other person selfish if the opposite person's reaction isn't the same. Infatuation isn't pure like love and may be accompanied by lust. It goes about thinking about oneself and not the other person.

[edit] Separation

Infatuation is weakened by time and separation where real love is strengthened by time and separation. Separation in both emotions causes great pain but infatuation may get weak and cause the feeling to lessen over time. Love develops more with time and separation.

[edit] Commitment

While true and pure love between two people can develop into long term commitment, infatuation may only in very few cases lead to any commitment. True love induces a feeling of commitment towards the other person while infatuation doesn't make one feel committed towards the opposite person.