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That's called limerence, not love.
by mattmanser 5y ago
That's called limerence, not love.
- tsimionescu 5y agoThat's the word some psychologist coined. It's pretty absurd to me to take such a common part of the human experience and use a neologism for it, when it's something that has been experienced for thousands of years the world over, and has received common words - love at first sight, infatuation, lust, depending on exact details.
- mattmanser 5y agoOk, call it infatuation if you want, but it's still not commonly called love. But limerence sounds like it is like infatuation on steroids. Psychologists have simply got better at classifying emotions, what you've decided to dismissingly call 'coined'.
- pcthrowaway 5y agoThe original response being disputed was that people initially fall in lust rather than love. Infatuation and lust seem like different things to me
- kbelder 5y ago>Psychologists have simply got better at classifying emotions This being Hacker News, I am really not supposed to lay into the statement with all the derision and vitriol that it legitimately deserves. I'll restrain myself.
- staticman2 5y agoOne critique of psychology is practitioners use fancy sounding words- ideally with latin rootes- to make unscientific claims seem scientific. I believe I read that critique from a psychologist.