What is another word for unrequited love?

Pronunciation: [ˌʌnɹɪkwˈa͡ɪtɪd lˈʌv] (IPA)

Unrequited love is a term used to describe a situation where one person has romantic feelings towards another, but those feelings are not reciprocated. Synonyms for the phrase that one can use include one-sided love, unreturned affection, an unfulfilled infatuation or crush, a hopeless attraction, and a fruitless love. Other synonyms for unrequited love are a lopsided relationship, an unrequited yearning, a singular devotion, and an unreturned passion. These synonyms represent the range of painful, yet poignant emotions felt by individuals experiencing unrequited love. Each term conveys a unique sense of longing and heartbreak that is familiar to many.

What are the hypernyms for Unrequited love?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    Unanswered love, Unfulfilled love, Unhealthy love, Unrequited romance, Unreturned love, Unsatisfied love, Unwanted love, one-sided love, unreciprocated love.

Famous quotes with Unrequited love

  • Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
    Charles M. Schulz
  • On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
    Scott Turow
  • Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That's an age-old question. It's perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer's night.
    Sybil Adelman
  • To love, to be beloved again, and know A gulf between us:—aye, 'tis misery! This agony of passion, this wild faith, Whose constancy is fruitless, yet is kept Inviolate:—to feel that all life's hope, And light, and treasure, clings to one from whom Our wayward doom divides us. Better far To weep o'er treachery or broken vows,— For time may teach their worthlessness:—or pine With unrequited love;—there is a pride In the fond sacrifice—the cheek may lose Its summer crimson; but at least the rose Has withered secretly—at least, the heart That has been victim to its tenderness, Has sighed unechoed by some one as true, As wretched as itself.
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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