philia
- n a positive feeling of liking
- Love may be a perfectly proper English word, but it lacks the precision of agape, philia or eras, which a theologian would prefer to express his exact shade of meaning.
- Languid Suzy Parker, who plays a Red Cross nurse, seems to have less Nippo-philia than the boys.
- Yet the police disclosed that the handwritten diary they had found was drenched in Nazi-philia: phrases in German punctuating a year's worth of meticulous planning for the attack .