also: エロース
eros; sexual desire; physical love
Refers to erotic love or sexual passion, often in contrast to agape or other forms of love. Used in both everyday and literary contexts.
from Ancient Greek
The themes of eros and thanatos often appear in his works.
Eros was an important concept in ancient Greece.
The Greek god of love, equivalent to Cupid in Roman mythology.
Eros is said to be the son of Aphrodite.
In Platonic philosophy, the desire for beauty and the divine, often discussed in the context of the Symposium.
In Plato's Symposium, various arguments about Eros are exchanged.
A near-Earth asteroid, number 433 in the asteroid catalog.
The asteroid Eros was discovered in 1898.
There's a quiet sense of eros in that painting.
The novelist boldly depicted human eros.
エロス is the loanword from Greek philosophy used in academic or literary discussion, largely overlapping with 性愛 but sounding more abstract and theoretical.
アガペー denotes selfless, unconditional love, standing in contrast to the passionate, physical love described by エロス.
In psychoanalytic theory タナトス represents the death drive, set against エロス as the life and pleasure drive.
Standard katakana spelling for the Greek loanword.
Alternate katakana rendering reflecting the long vowel; much less common than エロス.
From Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs, 'love, desire').