storge

The word storge was the kind of love you feel for the old pair of house shoes that your wife wants to throw away but you want to keep.

Swan’s Soup & Salad DR. DENNIS SWANBERG 1999

The word storge was the kind of love you feel for the old pair of house shoes that your wife wants to throw away but you want to keep.

Swan’s Soup & Salad DR. DENNIS SWANBERG 1999

And she was his daughter, who therefore inspired the love in him known as storge.

The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

Storge—“Affection” in Greek, storge is a pure love that is full of tenderness, caring, and empathy.

The SOURCE of MIRACLES KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2009

The natural affection of parents, called storge by the Greeks, is no more of a moral nature than the same affection in inferior animals.

Outlines of Moral Science. 1772-1851 1854

Is this curious kind of storge produced by mechanic attraction, or by the sensation of love?

Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868

Is this curious kind of storge produced by mechanic attraction, or by the sensation of love?

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

Another major aspect of love is expressed through the Greek word is storge, generally translated as affection, or affinity between family members or friends, people who find themselves spending much time with each other with whom each becomes familiar.

Mitchell J. Rabin: The Ways of Love Mitchell J. Rabin 2012

Another major aspect of love is expressed through the Greek word is storge, generally translated as affection, or affinity between family members or friends, people who find themselves spending much time with each other with whom each becomes familiar.

Mitchell J. Rabin: The Ways of Love Mitchell J. Rabin 2012

While storge can develop a deep level of intimacy, it generally lacks passion.

Leslie Davenport: The Health Benefits of Love: A Meditation for Deepening Connections Leslie Davenport 2012