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philia
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Philia
Philia
( or ; ), often translated "
brotherly love
", is one of the four ancient
Greek words for love
:
philia
,
storge
,
agape
and
eros
. In
Aristotle
's
Nicomachean Ethics
, philia is usually translated as "
friendship
" or
affection
. The complete opposite is called a
phobia
.
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-phil-
Suffixes with the common part
-phil-
(
-phile
,
-philia
,
-phily
,
-philic
) are used to specify some kind of attraction or affinity to something. They are
antonymic
to suffixes
-phob-
.
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