love-hate
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Etymology
The adjective is a calque of German Liebe-Hass (now more commonly Hassliebe (“love-hate relationship”)),[1] from Liebe (“love; relationship of love”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love”)) + Hass (“hate; hatred”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“anger; hatred”)).
The verb is derived from the adjective.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˌlʌvˈheɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪt
Adjective
love-hate (not comparable)
- (originally psychoanalysis) Of a relationship: involving feelings of both love and hate, often simultaneously.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Varren Codex entry:
- The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.
- 2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club[2], archived from the original on 21 November 2019:
- Still, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] manages to locate some gentle satire in our culture's love-hate relationship with the internet. At one point, Ralph must attain a certain level of viral popularity, assisted by the BuzzFeed-esque content guru Yesss (Taraji P. Henson), and the movie is savvy about how accidental spikes in fame can turn into cynical algorithm manipulation.
Derived terms
Translations
involving feelings of both love and hate, often simultaneously
Verb
love-hate (third-person singular simple present love-hates, present participle love-hating, simple past and past participle love-hated)
- (transitive) To feel both love and hate (for someone or something), often simultaneously.
- 2022, Jordan Castro, The Novelist[3], Catapult, →ISBN:
- […] Eric got to act out his resentment while also hating himself, really love-hating himself, and he got to do it while masquerading as a warrior for the less fortunate!
Translations
to feel both love and hate (for someone or something), often simultaneously
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See also
References
- ^ “love-hate, n.” under “love, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2008; “love-hate, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ Compare “love-hate, v.” under “love, n.1”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, June 2008.
Further reading
- love–hate relationship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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