Love
Love noun - A feeling of strong or constant regard for and dedication to someone.
Need
Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.
How words are described
| human | human love | human need |
| old | old love | old need |
| good | good love | good need |
| particular | particular love | particular need |
| Other adjectives: true, genuine, sheer, obvious, strong, actual, real, big, great, intense, serious, little, new, apparent, less, greater, last, greatest, obsessive. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Parental Substitute: Professor Ramona acts as a mother figure for Jubahm (it's ambiguous if she was having a relationship with his father) and Sul tries to act as one for Sul-yin but she feels as though he doesn't love or need her.
Source: Webcomic / Kiss Wood -
It is Colin's true-hearted heroic love and need for his sister which provides the answer; as he tooresponds to the older powers of the world.
Source: Literature / The Moon of Gomrath - As well, can Clara be happy with a traveling companion who's virtually an anti-Doctor, given how much she came to love and need him?
Source: Esoteric Happy Ending
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