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The art of mistaking dopamine for destiny, and somehow being right anyway.
means A feeling or expression of love and emotional intimacy between people, or a story, mood, or sense of adventure and idealized beauty.
from From Old French 'romanz,' meaning a story written in the vernacular — the common Roman-derived tongue — rather than in scholarly Latin. The word traces to Vulgar Latin 'romanice,' 'in the Roman manner.' Since those popular tales overflowed with knights, quests, and love, 'romance' drifted from meaning 'a language' to 'a kind of story' to, eventually, the love itself. So the languages we call Romance and the feeling we call romantic share the same Roman root — a happy accident of linguistic geography.
- word origin
- Named for tales written in vernacular Roman tongues, not Latin
- brain chemistry
- Early love lowers serotonin like obsessive-compulsive disorder does
- medieval invention
- Courtly love was popularized by 12th-century troubadours
- limerence limit
- Passionate infatuation typically fades within 18 to 36 months
- flower code
- Victorians sent coded messages through specific bouquet arrangements
romeo and juliet — shakespeare's 1595 tragedy of star-crossed lovers in verona
titanic — 1997 film featuring jack and rose aboard the 1912 ship disaster
casablanca — 1942 film with humphrey bogart and ingrid bergman in morocco
notebook — nicholas sparks 1996 novel adapted into 2004 film with ryan gosling