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@kaia@brotka.st @lain@lain.com ahhh if we're going back to medieval times, sure, but i was moreso thinking about the Victorian and Elizabethan eras. if you go back even further to Ancient Greece, there were many forms of love, each with a distinct term, and eros was not even considered to be inherently sexual despite the modern concept of eroticism deriving from that---but that's close. moreso a love of an ideal that was intended to transcend the physical into a plane beyond---at least in the ideal form of relationship based on eros, at the time. sensual love would be perhaps the closest term in modern English, perhaps, but it's still not quite right. it's hard to define a concept that existed before the notion of the Ghost in the Machine was so prevalent, considering how many still adhere to notions of mind-body dualism.