The appetitive resting in a good, abstracting from presence or absence.  Such appetite can be either sensate or intellectual.  The presence of the good adds the note of joy; absence adds the note of desire.  Love can be distinguished into love of “concupiscence,” understood in a neutral sense as referring to love of something for the sake of the lover’s own good; love of benevolence, when one loves the will of another person, though without reciprocity; and love of friendship, when such love is reciprocally recognized.  In a more metaphysically exact manner, love can be distinguished in relation to the threefold division of the good into fitting, delightful, and useful. In this final sense, the notion of friendship will be used in theology as the analogate most closely approximating the theological virtue of charity.  (See the entry for good.)