passion

pas·sion  (pshn)

n.

1. A powerful emotion, such as love, joy, hatred, or anger.

2.

a. Ardent love.

b. Strong sexual desire; lust.

c. The object of such love or desire.

3.

a. Boundless enthusiasm: His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.

b. The object of such enthusiasm: Soccer is her passion.

4. An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger: He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.

5. Passion

a. The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.

b. A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.

6. Archaic Martyrdom.

7. Archaic Passivity.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin passi, passin-, sufferings of Jesus or a martyr, from Late Latin, physical suffering, martyrdom, sinful desire, from Latin, an undergoing, from passus, past participle of pat, to suffer; see p(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: passion, fervor, fire, zeal, ardor
These nouns denote powerful, intense emotion. Passion is a deep, overwhelming emotion: "There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy" Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
The term may signify sexual desire or anger: "He flew into a violent passion and abused me mercilessly" H.G. Wells.
Fervor is great warmth and intensity of feeling: "The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal" William James.
Fire is burning passion: "In our youth our hearts were touched with fire" Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Zeal is strong, enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance: "Laurie [resolved], with a glow of philanthropic zeal, to found and endow an institution for ... women with artistic tendencies" Louisa May Alcott.
Ardor is fiery intensity of feeling: "the furious ardor of my zeal repressed" Charles Churchill. See Also Synonyms at feeling.

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passion

Noun

1. intense sexual love

2. any strongly felt emotion

3. a strong enthusiasm for something: a passion for football

4. the object of an intense desire or enthusiasm: flying is his abiding passion [Latin pati to suffer]

passionless adj

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Passion

Noun

the sufferings of Christ from the Last Supper to his death on the cross

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	passion - a strong feeling or emotion passionateness feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" infatuation - a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration wildness, abandon - a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger" fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, ardor, ardour, fire - feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" storminess - violent passion in speech or action; "frightened by the storminess of their argument"
	2.	passion - the trait of being intensely emotional heat, warmth emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality fieriness - a passionate and quick-tempered nature
	3.	passion - something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him" rage desire - something that is desired
	4.	passion - an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action cacoethes, mania irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic agromania - an intense desire to be alone or out in the open dipsomania, potomania, alcoholism - an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess egomania - an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs kleptomania - an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive logomania, logorrhea - pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism - an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies phaneromania - an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) pyromania - an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things trichotillomania - an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
	5.	passion - a feeling of strong sexual desire concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros - a desire for sexual intimacy
	6.	passion - any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting"; love object - the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
	7.	Passion - the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion Passion of Christ excruciation, suffering, agony - a state of acute pain

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passion

noun 1. love, desire, affection, lust, the hots (slang) attachment, itch, fondness, adoration, infatuation, ardour, keenness, concupiscence

noun 2. emotion, feeling, fire, heat, spirit, transport, joy, excitement, intensity, warmth, animation, zeal, zest, fervour, eagerness, rapture, ardour << OPPOSITE indifference

noun 3. mania, fancy, enthusiasm, obsession, bug (informal) craving, fascination, craze, infatuation

noun 4. rage, fit, storm, anger, fury, resentment, outburst, frenzy, wrath, indignation, flare-up (informal) ire, vehemence, paroxysm

Translations

passion [ˈpæʃən] n → pasión f

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passion [ˈpæʃən] n → passion f;

to have a passion for sth → avoir la passion de qch

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passion [ˈpæʃən] n → Leidenschaft f;

to have a passion for sth → eine Leidenschaft für etw haben

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passion [ˈpæʃən] n → passione f; amore m;

to have a passion for sth → aver la passione di or per qc