anteros
noun
anteros is a noun meaning “The counterlove or affectionate response a philerast gives to the love of an erastes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-E-R-O-S, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does anteros mean?
noun
- 1
The counterlove or affectionate response a philerast gives to the love of an erastes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of anteros
- anterôs
- anterōs
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is anteros?
Anteros appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does anteros come from?
From Ancient Greek ἀντέρως (antérōs), reputedly coined by Plato. That in turn comes from ἀντί (antí, “against”) + ἔρως (érōs, “love”), hence the translation as counterlove.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).