Agape

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: əgāp´, IPA: /əˈɡeɪp/, SAMPA: /@"geIp/

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• Rhymes: -eɪp

Adjective

Agape (comparative more Agape, superlative most Agape)

1. Being in a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention; as with mouth hanging open.

Synonyms

• (being in a state of astonishment): dumbstruck, agog
• (open wide): ajar, open, agog

Adverb

Agape (comparative more Agape, superlative most Agape)

1. In a state of astonishment, wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
2. open wide.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ägä´pā, IPA: /əˈɡɑːpeɪ/, SAMPA: /A:"gA:peI/

Noun

Agape (plural agapae)

1. (Christianity) the love of God for mankind, or the benevolent love of Christians for others.
2. spiritual, altruistic, beneficial love which wills good for other.
3. a love feast, especially one held in the early Christian Church in connection with the eucharist.

Thesaurus

Amor; BOMFOG; Benthamism; Christian charity; Christian love; Eros; Platonic love; accord; accordance; admiration; adoration; affection; affinity; aghast; agog; agreement; ajar; all agog; altruism; amazed; amity; 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; bewildered; bewitched; bigheartedness; bodily love; bonds of harmony; breathless; brotherly love; burning with curiosity; captivated; caritas; celebration; cement of friendship; certain; charitableness; charity; 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; 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; 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