0 with the mouth open, especially showing surprise or shock:
We watched, our mouths agape in excitement.
1 a type of love that is not sexual and is not concerned with yourself; used especially in Christianity to refer to Christian love:
The Greeks separated various facets of love, and those involved in marriage are eros, phileo and agape.
The word that best describes this kind of love is not “eros", not “agape", but yet another Greek word, “philia", which means “love between friends".
God gives you agape - deep, unconditional, fatherly love.
This is because agape is too distant from its objects, and involves no necessary mutuality, a feature which makes it destructive of altruism.
In this scene it is eros rather than agape that reigns.
The astonished fiancée stands with mouth agape, eyes downcast and shut, as she presses her left hand beneath her heart, as if to uphold it.
What this omission reveals is the inadequacy of an exclusive focus on agape as the central ethical concept.
This type of love is what we call agape.
