love affair

noun

a romantic relationship or episode between lovers; an amour.

an active enthusiasm for something: my love affair with sailing.

Origin:
1585–95

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love affair

—n
1.	a romantic or sexual relationship, esp a temporary one, between two people
2.	a great enthusiasm or liking for something: a love affair with ballet

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Idioms & Phrases

love affair

An intimate sexual relationship, as in They had a torrid love affair many years ago. This expression dates from about 1600, when it referred merely to the experiences connected with being in love. The current sense dates from the second half of the 1800s.
A strong enthusiasm, as in We can't ignore America's love affair with the automobile. [Mid-1900s]

Matching Quote

"Love, by reason of its passion, destroys the in-between which relates us to and separates us from others. As long as its spell lasts, the only in-between which can insert itself between two lovers is the child, love's own product. The child, this in-between to which the lovers now are related and which they hold in common, is representative of the world in that it also separates them; it is an indication that they will insert a new world into the existing world. Through the child, it is as though the lovers return to the world from which their love had expelled them. But this new worldliness, the possible result and the only possibly happy ending of a love affair, is, in a sense, the end of love, which must either overcome the partners anew or be transformed into another mode of belonging together."

-Hannah Arendt

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