Love interest
Sweetheart and love interest are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sweetheart" instead a noun phrase "Love interest".
Sweetheart
Sweetheart noun - A person with whom one is in love.
Love interest and sweetheart are semantically related. You can use "Love interest" instead a noun "Sweetheart".
Both terms in one sentence
- Canon example: In Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, it's revealed that Layton's sweetheart Claire, ten years deceased, was the Love Interest of two men other than her actual boyfriend.
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