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amative (adj.): relating to or inclined toward love, especially sexual love; amorous⁽*⁾; (adv.): amatively; (n.): amativeness. [1630; Medieval Latin amātīvus, ‘capable of love’, from amātus, past participle of Latin amāre, ‘to love’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

⁽*⁾amorous (adj.): 1. feeling or devoted to sexual love or desire; (synonyms): amative, concupiscent, erotic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, lusty, passionate, prurient, sexy; 2. of, concerning, or promoting sexual love or desire; (synonyms): amatory, aphrodisiac, erotic, lascivious, salacious, sexual, sexy. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Amatory:

• amatory (adj.): of, relating to, or inciting sexual love or desire; also called: amatorian or amatorious. [C16: from Latin amātōrius, from amāre, ‘to love’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• amatory (adj.): of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking; expressive of love. [1590-1600; from Latin amātōrius; see amateur; viz.: from French, Middle French from Latin amātor, ‘lover’, from amā(re), ‘to love’ + -tory¹]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• amatory (adj.): expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; [e.g.]: “her amatory affairs”; (synonyms): amorous, romantic; [e.g.]: “her amorous glances”; “a romantic adventure”; “a romantic moonlight ride”; (related word): loving (feeling or showing love and affection; [e.g.]: “their loving parents”; “her loving glances”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• amatory (adj.): of, concerning, or promoting sexual love or desire; (synonyms): amorous, aphrodisiac, erotic, lascivious, salacious, sexual, sexy. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

• amatory (adj.): of, relating to, or expressive of love, especially romantic love; [e.g.]: “an amatory mood”; “an amatory embrace”. [Latin amātōrius, from amātor, ‘lover’; see amateur; viz.: French, from Latin amātor, from amāre, ‘to love’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Liaison:

liaison (n.): a sexual relationship, especially when at least one person is married or involved in a sexual relationship with someone else; (intr.v.): liasoned, liasoning, liaisons. [French, from Old French, from Latin ligātiō , ligātiōn-, from ligātus, past participle of ligāre, ‘to bind’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Libidinosity:

libidinosity (n.): lustfulness. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Libidinous:

libidinous (adj.): “lustful”, mid-15th century, from Old French libidineus, ‘sinful, lusty’ (13th century, Modern libidineux) or directly from Latin libīdinosus, ‘full of desire’, ‘lustful’, from libīdō, “pleasure, desire, sensual passion, lust”; see libido[§]. Related: libidinously {=lustfully, lasciviously; lewdly}; libidinousness {=amativeness, amorousness; concupiscence}; libidinosity {=pruriency, lechery; lubricity}. *These are older in English than libido, libidinal* {libidinal=belonging to the libido; [e.g.]: “libidinal impulses”; “libidinal gratification”}, *which are from modern psychology*. [emphases and curly bracketed inserts added]. ~ (Online Etymology Dictionary).

[§]libido (n.): “psychic drive or energy, usually associated with sexual instinct”, *1892, carried over untranslated in English edition of Krafft-Ebing’s “Psychopathia Sexualis”*; and used in 1909 in A. A. Brill’s translation of Freud’s “Selected Papers on Hysteria” (Freud’s use of the term led to its popularity). [from Latin libīdō, ‘libido’: “desire, eagerness, longing; inordinate desire, sensual passion, lust”, from libēre, “to be pleasing, to please”]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Online Etymology Dictionary).

Love:

For instance:

• love (n.): 1. a strong feeling of affection [...]. ~ (Oxford Dictionary)
• love (n.): 1. a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection [...]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary)

• love (n.): 1. a. an intense emotion of affection [...]. ~ (Collins Dictionary)

• love (n.): 1. a profoundly tender, passionate affection [...]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary)

• love (n.): 1. a strong positive emotion of regard and affection [...]. (WordNet 3.0)

Love (Chemistry of Love):

‘Love can be distilled into three categories: lust, attraction, and attachment; though there are overlaps and subtleties to each, each type is characterised by its own set of hormones; testosterone and oestrogen drive lust; dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin create attraction; and oxytocin and vasopressin mediate attachment (...); the testes and ovaries secrete the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen, driving sexual desire; dopamine, oxytocin, and vasopressin are all made in the hypothalamus, a region of the brain which controls many vital functions as well as emotion; lust and attraction shut off the prefrontal cortex of the brain, *which includes rational behaviour*...“. [emphasis added].

[https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/].

Lubricious:

lubricious (adj.): 1. full of or displaying sexual desire; 2. sexually stimulating; salacious (adv.): lubriciously; (n.): lubriciousness. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

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