passion (redirected from Passions)

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 [ˈpæʃən]

n

1. ardent love or affection

2. intense sexual love

3. a strong affection or enthusiasm for an object, concept, etc. a passion for poetry

4. any strongly felt emotion, such as love, hate, envy, etc.

5. a state or outburst of extreme anger he flew into a passion

6. the object of an intense desire, ardent affection, or enthusiasm

7. an outburst expressing intense emotion he burst into a passion of sobs

8. (Philosophy) Philosophy

a.  any state of the mind in which it is affected by something external, such as perception, desire, etc., as contrasted with action

b.  feelings, desires or emotions, as contrasted with reason

9. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) the sufferings and death of a Christian martyr

[via French from Church Latin passiō suffering, from Latin patī to suffer]

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Passion [ˈpæʃən]

n

1. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) the sufferings of Christ from the Last Supper to his death on the cross

2. (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) any of the four Gospel accounts of this

3. (Music, other) (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) a musical setting of this the St Matthew Passion

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Passion 

See Also: DESIRE, LOVE, SEX

1. As passionate as shredded wheat —Lawrence Gilman
2. The echoes of passion in the emptiness of a lonely heart is like the murmurings of wind and water in the silence of the wilderness —Francois Rene de Chateaubriand
3. Genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward —Christian Nestell Bovee
4. Hot as a forty-balled tomcat —Rita Mae Brown
5. Instant passion is like instant coffee; it’s cheap and it’s quick and it makes you wish you had a percolator —Carla Lane, dialogue for heroine of English television sit-com “Solo,” broadcast April 7, 1987
6. Our passions are in truth, like the phoenix. The old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
7. Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after —Jonathan Swift
8. Our world passions are like so many lawyers wrangling and brawling at a bar —Owen Feltham

   The comparison continues as follows: “Discretion is the lord-keeper of man that sits as judge, and moderation their contestations.”

9. The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way —Plato
10. Passionate men, like fleet hounds, are apt to over-run the scent —H. G. Bohn’s Handbook of Proverbs
11. Passion burned through her like a sunrise —Ellen Glasgow
12. Passion is like crime; it does not thrive on the established order —Thomas Mann
13. Passion is like genius: a miracle —Romain Rolland
14. Passionless as a clam —Gertrude Atherton
15. Passion … like a fire on the prairie that devours everything around it —W. Somerset Maugham
16. Passion … like other violent excitements … throws up not only what is best, but what is worst and smallest, in men’s characters —Robert Louis Stevenson
17. Passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart —Richard E. Burton
18. Passions are like fire and water, good servants but bad masters —Alexander Pope
19. Passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess —Francois due de La Rochefoucauld
20. Passions are like the trout in a pond: one devours the others until only one fat old trout is left —Otto von Bismarck
21. A passion that had moved into his body, like a stranger —Arthur Miller
22. Passion … went over him like an ocean wave —Jean Stafford

    At another point in her novel, The Mountain Lion, Stafford used the ocean waves comparison to describe the powerful smell of flowers.

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passion

• acokoinonia - Sex without passion or desire.
• excandescence - The state of being glowing hot, anger or passion.
• incense - Once meant to kindle any passion, good or bad.
• wrangle - To wrangle can mean "to scream with passion."

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 Romeo's passion for Juliet

2. emotion, feeling, fire, heat, spirit, transport, joy, excitement, intensity, warmth, animation, zeal, zest, fervour, eagerness, rapture, ardour Her eyes were blazing with passion.
emotion hate, indifference, apathy, coolness, coldness, calmness, frigidity, unconcern

3. mania, fancy, enthusiasm, obsession, bug (informal), craving, fascination, craze, infatuation She has a passion for gardening. Television is his passion.

4. rage, fit, storm, anger, fury, resentment, outburst, frenzy, wrath, indignation, flare-up (informal), ire, vehemence, paroxysm Sam flew into a passion at the suggestion. He killed the woman in a fit of passion.

Quotations
"In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self" [John Boorman journal entry]
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them" [Carl Gustav Jung Memories, Dreams, and Reflections]

Translations

passion [ˈpæʃən]

A. N

1. (= love) (sexual, fig) → pasión f
his passion for accuracy → su pasión por la exactitud
I have a passion for shellfish → el marisco me apasiona
see also crime B

2. (= fervour, emotion) → pasión f
he spoke with great passion → habló con gran pasión
political passions are running high → las pasiones políticas están caldeadas
she has taken to golf with a passion → ha empezado a jugar al golf y le apasiona

3. (= anger) → cólera f, pasión f
to be in a passion → estar encolerizado
to do sth in a fit of passion → hacer algo en un arrebato or un arranque de cólera or pasión
to fly into a passion → montar en cólera, encolerizarse

4. (Rel) the Passion → la Pasión
the St John/St Matthew Passion → la Pasión según San Juan/San Mateo

B. CPD passion fruit N → granadilla f
Passion play N → misterio m
Passion Sunday N → Domingo m de Pasión

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passion [ˈpæʃ^ən] n

(for person) → passion f
a passion for sb → une passion pour qn
I had felt such extraordinary passion for this girl → J'avais éprouvé une passion si intense pour cette fille.
my passion for him → la passion que j'éprouve pour lui

(= feeling) to speak with passion → parler avec passion

(= interest) → passion f
to have a passion for sth → avoir la passion de qch
to have a passion for doing sth → adorer faire qch

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passion

n

→ Leidenschaft f; (= fervour) → Leidenschaftlichkeit f; (= enthusiasm) → Begeisterung f, → Leidenschaft f; to have a passion for something → eine Passion or Leidenschaft für etw haben; her passion for oysters/all things Greek → ihre Passion or ausgeprägte Vorliebe für Austern/alles Griechische; passions were running high → die Erregung schlug hohe Wellen; his passion for the cause → sein leidenschaftliches Engagement für die Sache; music is a passion with him → die Musik ist bei ihm eine Leidenschaft; his passion is Mozart → Mozart ist seine Passion; to be in a passion → erregt sein; to fly into a passion → in Erregung geraten, sich erregen

(Rel, Art, Mus) → Passion f; St Matthew Passion → Matthäuspassion f

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passion:

passionflower

n → Passionsblume f; (hum inf, as address) → Schatz m, → Schätzchen nt

passion fruit

n → Passionsfrucht f

passionless

adj → leidenschaftslos

Passion play

n → Passionsspiel nt

Passion Sunday

n → (erster) Passionssonntag; (in Protestant church) → Sonntag m → Judika

Passion Week

n → Karwoche f

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passion [ˈpæʃ/ən] n

a. → passione f
to have a passion for sth → aver la passione di qc, avere una passione per qc
his passion for seafood → la sua passione per i frutti di mare
his passion for accuracy → il suo amore per la precisione
to get into a passion (about sth) → andare su tutte le furie (per qc)

b. (Rel) the Passion → la Passione

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passion

n passion [ˈpӕʃən]

very strong feeling, especially of anger or love He argued with great passion; He has a passion for chocolate. passie عاطِفَه، هَوى ، إنْفِعال страст vášeň lidenskab; passion die Leidenschaft πάθος pasión kirg شور و حرارت intohimo passion יֵצֶר, תְּשוקָה लगाव strast,zanos szenvedély nafsu ástríða passione 情熱 열정 aistra, potraukis aizrautība; kaisle; milzīga vēlme keghairahan hartstocht lidenskap namiętność, pasja paixão pa­si­une страсть vášeň strast strast passion, lidelse ความหลงใหล tutku, ihtiras 激情 пристрасть; ентузіазм ولولہ، جوش sự say mê 激情

adj passionate [-nət]

having very strong feelings; intense or emotional a passionate woman; passionate hatred. passievol إنْفِعالي، عاطِفي، سَريع الغَضَب страстен vášnivý lidenskabelig; passioneret leidenschaftlich παράφορος, σφοδρός apasionado kirglik پر شور intohimoinen passionné נִלהָב, יִצרִי तीव्र, उत्‍कट strastven,vatren szenvedélyes bernafsu ástríðufullur appassionato; passionale 情熱的な 열정적인 aistringas, karštas aizrautīgs; kaislīgs ghairah hartstochtelijk lidenskapelig, brennende, heftig namiętny ardente pătimaş страстный vášnivý strasten strastven passionerad, lidelsefull ลึกซึ้ง ateşli, coşkun 熱情的 пристрасний, палкий پرجوش nồng nàn 热情的

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passion → وَلَع vášeň lidenskab Leidenschaft πάθος pasión intohimo passion strast passione 熱情 열정 passie lidenskap pasja paixão страсть passion อารมณ์อันเร่าร้อน tutku sự đam mê 热情