love-in

plural love-ins

1. An activists' social gathering to promote love and feelings of well-being.

   Sara Davidson traces the varying paths she and two friends followed from their undergraduate years at Berkeley through sit-ins and love-ins; grass and acid; the Kennedys and the Beatles; the sexual revolution and the woman's movement.

   1977 June 6, New York Magazine, volume 10, number 23, page 76

2. broadlycolloquialA situation characterized by (possibly insincere) friendship and affection.

   The summer in between wasn't a total love-in of hugs and sweet family times, for us and other families.

   2018, Carol Kuykendall, Krista Gilbert, Give Them Wings: Preparing for the Time Your Teen Leaves Home