Associations to the word «Philia»

Wiktionary

PHILIA, noun. Friendship (translating Greek φιλία in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics)
PHILIA, noun. Liking
PHILIA, noun. (countable) a psychological disorder characterized by an irrational favorable disposition towards something

Dictionary definition

PHILIA, noun. A positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home".

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin