There was context. She was in love with the previous judge, and kept mixing up her feelings for him with her feelings for the mc. She seems to have been able to realize they are seperate people.
I assume it was an iffy translation of a Japanese concept into english and it got and all the other translators simply went along with it since it became the name of the genre.
Or, since the are mostly based on amateur webnovels, the original Japanese authors just sucked at picking a title, and...