anteros
See also: Anteros, anterôs, and anterōs
English
Alternative forms
- anterôs, anterōs
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀντέρως (antérōs), reputedly coined by Plato. That in turn comes from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἔρως (érōs, “love”), hence the translation as counterlove.
Noun
anteros (uncountable)
- (chiefly historical, Ancient Greece) The counterlove or affectionate response a philerast gives to the love of an erastes.
- 1987, Julia Kristeva, Tales of love, page 66:
- The loved one, in turn, thus subject to the fiery soul of the lover, experiences anteros, a counterlove whose calm consent amounts to very filial affection […]
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Anagrams
- Santore, Senator, asteron, atoners, nor'-east, nose art, noseart, one-star, orantes, ornates, roneats, rotanes, santero, seatron, senator, tenoras, treason