[mattmanser]

That's called limerence, not love.

[tsimionescu]

That's the word some psychologist coined. It's pretty absurd to me to take such a common part of the human experience and use a neologism for it, when it's something that has been experienced for thousands of years the world over, and has received common words - love at first sight, infatuation, lust, depending on exact details.

[mattmanser]

Ok, call it infatuation if you want, but it's still not commonly called love. But limerence sounds like it is like infatuation on steroids.

Psychologists have simply got better at classifying emotions, what you've decided to dismissingly call 'coined'.

[kbelder]

>Psychologists have simply got better at classifying emotions

This being Hacker News, I am really not supposed to lay into the statement with all the derision and vitriol that it legitimately deserves. I'll restrain myself.

[pcthrowaway]

The original response being disputed was that people initially fall in lust rather than love. Infatuation and lust seem like different things to me

[staticman2]

One critique of psychology is practitioners use fancy sounding words- ideally with latin rootes- to make unscientific claims seem scientific.

I believe I read that critique from a psychologist.