'agape' definitions:
Definition of 'agape'
(from WordNet)
adjective
With the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe; "the gaping audience"; "we stood there agape with wonder"; "with mouth agape" [syn: agape(p), gaping]
noun
(Christian theology) the love of God or Christ for mankind
noun
Selfless love of one person for another without sexual implications (especially love that is spiritual in nature) [syn: agape, agape love]
noun
A religious meal shared as a sign of love and fellowship [syn: agape, love feast]
Synonyms of 'agape'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accord,
- accordance,
- admiration,
- adoration,
- affection,
- affinity,
- aghast,
- agog,
- agreement,
- ajar,
- all agog,
- altruism,
- amazed,
- amity,
- Amor,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- ardency,
- ardor,
- asperges,
- aspersion,
- astonished,
- astounded,
- at gaze,
- attachment,
- auricular confession,
- awaiting,
- awed,
- awestruck,
- bar mitzvah,
- bas mitzvah,
- beguiled,
- beneficence,
- benevolence,
- benevolent disposition,
- benevolentness,
- Benthamism,
- bewildered,
- bewitched,
- bigheartedness,
- bodily love,
- BOMFOG,
- bonds of harmony,
- breathless,
- brotherly love,
- burning with curiosity,
- captivated,
- caritas,
- celebration,
- cement of friendship,
- certain,
- charitableness,
- charity,
- Christian charity,
- Christian love,
- circumcision,
- communion,
- community,
- community of interests,
- compatibility,
- concord,
- concordance,
- confession,
- confident,
- confirmation,
- confounded,
- congeniality,
- conjugal love,
- consumed with curiosity,
- correspondence,
- curious,
- dehiscent,
- desire,
- devotion,
- dismayed,
- do-goodism,
- dumbfounded,
- dumbstruck,
- eager,
- empathy,
- enchanted,
- enraptured,
- enravished,
- enthralled,
- entranced,
- Eros,
- esprit,
- esprit de corps,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- faithful love,
- fancy,
- fascinated,
- feeling of identity,
- fellow feeling,
- fellowship,
- fervor,
- flabbergasted,
- flame,
- flower power,
- fondness,
- forearmed,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- free love,
- free-lovism,
- frictionlessness,
- gaping,
- gauping,
- gazing,
- generosity,
- ghoulish,
- giving,
- good vibes,
- good vibrations,
- goodwill,
- gossipy,
- grace,
- greatheartedness,
- happy family,
- harmony,
- heart,
- hero worship,
- high celebration,
- hopeful,
- humanitarianism,
- hypnotized,
- identity,
- idolatry,
- idolism,
- idolization,
- in anticipation,
- in awe,
- in awe of,
- in expectation,
- incense,
- inquiring,
- inquisitive,
- interested,
- invocation,
- invocation of saints,
- itchy,
- kinship,
- kiss of peace,
- largeheartedness,
- lasciviousness,
- lesser litany,
- libido,
- like,
- like-mindedness,
- liking,
- litany,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- lost in wonder,
- love,
- love feast,
- love of mankind,
- lovemaking,
- lustration,
- married love,
- marveling,
- mesmerized,
- morbid,
- morbidly curious,
- mutuality,
- not surprised,
- oneness,
- open-eyed,
- openmouthed,
- optimistic,
- oscitant,
- overcurious,
- overwhelmed,
- passion,
- pax,
- peace,
- philanthropism,
- philanthropy,
- physical love,
- Platonic love,
- popeyed,
- popular regard,
- popularity,
- prepared,
- processional,
- prurient,
- puzzled,
- quizzical,
- rapport,
- rapprochement,
- rapt in wonder,
- ready,
- reciprocity,
- reciting the rosary,
- regard,
- ringent,
- sanguine,
- scopophiliac,
- sentiment,
- sex,
- sexual love,
- sharing,
- shine,
- shocked,
- slack-jawed,
- solidarity,
- spellbound,
- spiritual love,
- staggered,
- staring,
- stupefied,
- supercurious,
- sure,
- surprised,
- sympathy,
- symphony,
- team spirit,
- telling of beads,
- tender feeling,
- tender passion,
- the confessional,
- the confessionary,
- thunderstruck,
- truelove,
- under a charm,
- understanding,
- union,
- unison,
- unity,
- unsurprised,
- utilitarianism,
- uxoriousness,
- voyeuristic,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- watching for,
- weakness,
- welfarism,
- well-disposedness,
- wide-eyed,
- wonder-struck,
- wondering,
- worship,
- yawning,
- yearning