pas·sion
(păsh′ən)n.
1.
a. Strong or powerful emotion: a crime of passion.
b. A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy: a spirit governed by intense passions.
2.
a. A state of strong sexual desire or love: "His desire flared into a passion he could no longer check" (Barbara Taylor Bradford).
b. The object of such desire or love: She became his passion.
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. Martyrdom: the passion of Saint Margaret.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin passiō, passiōn-, sufferings of Jesus or a martyr, from Late Latin, physical suffering, martyrdom, sinful desire, from Latin, an undergoing, from passus, past participle of patī, to suffer; see pē(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: "When ... Moby Dick was fairly sighted from the mast-heads, Macey, the chief mate, burned with ardor to encounter him" (Herman Melville).
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: "When ... Moby Dick was fairly sighted from the mast-heads, Macey, the chief mate, burned with ardor to encounter him" (Herman Melville).
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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. Also called: the passions
9. (Theology) the sufferings and death of a Christian martyr
[C12: via French from Church Latin passiō suffering, from Latin patī to suffer]
Passion
(ˈpæʃən)n
1. (Theology) the sufferings of Christ from the Last Supper to his death on the cross
2. (Theology) any of the four Gospel accounts of this
3. (Music, other) a musical setting of this: the St Matthew Passion.
4. (Theology) a musical setting of this: the St Matthew Passion.
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pas•sion
(ˈpæʃ ən)n.
1. compelling emotion.
2. strong amorous feeling; love.
3. strong sexual desire; lust.
4. a strong fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for something: a passion for music.
5. the object of one's passion.
6. an outburst of emotion.
7. violent anger; wrath; rage.
8. (often cap.)
a. the sufferings of Christ on the cross or subsequent to the Last Supper.
b. the Gospel narrative of Christ's sufferings or a musical setting of this.
[1125–75; Middle English (< Old French) < Late Latin passiō Christ's sufferings on the cross, endurance, illness = Latin pat(ī) to suffer, submit + -tiō -tion]
pas′sion•ful, adj.
syn: See feeling.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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."
Farlex Trivia Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
Passion
- As passionate as shredded wheat —Lawrence Gilman
- 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
- Genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward —Christian Nestell Bovee
- Hot as a forty-balled tomcat —Rita Mae Brown
- 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
- 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
- Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after —Jonathan Swift
- 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.”
- The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way —Plato
- Passionate men, like fleet hounds, are apt to over-run the scent —H. G. Bohn’s Handbook of Proverbs
- Passion burned through her like a sunrise —Ellen Glasgow
- Passion is like crime; it does not thrive on the established order —Thomas Mann
- Passion is like genius: a miracle —Romain Rolland
- Passionless as a clam —Gertrude Atherton
- Passion … like a fire on the prairie that devours everything around it —W. Somerset Maugham
- 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
- 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
- Passions are like fire and water, good servants but bad masters —Alexander Pope
- Passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess —Francois due de La Rochefoucauld
- Passions are like the trout in a pond: one devours the others until only one fat old trout is left —Otto von Bismarck
- A passion that had moved into his body, like a stranger —Arthur Miller
- 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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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
| Noun | 1. |  passion - a strong feeling or emotion 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 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 emotionalemotionalism, 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" desire - something that is desired | |
| 4. | passion - an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action 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 monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea necromania, 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 | |
| 6. | passion - any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting"; object - the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection" | |
| 7. | Passion - the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion |
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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
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]
"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]
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
passion
noun2. The passionate affection and desire felt by lovers for each other:
3. Sexual hunger:
4. A strong, enthusiastic liking for something:
5. Passionate devotion to or interest in a cause or subject, for example:
6. A subject or activity that inspires lively interest:
7. An angry outburst:
Informal: conniption, conniption fit.
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Translations
عاطِفَه، هَوى ، إنْفِعالعِشْقٌ
vášeňpašije
lidenskabpassion
intohimokärsimyskärsimysnäytelmäkiihkopalo
strast
ástríîa
熱情
열정
aizrautībakaislemilzīga vēlme
vášeň
strast
passion
อารมณ์อันเร่าร้อน
sự đam mê
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
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
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
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
B. CPD passion fruit N → granadilla f
Passion play N → misterio m
Passion Sunday N → Domingo m de Pasión
Passion play N → misterio m
Passion Sunday N → Domingo m de Pasión
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
passion
[ˈpæʃən] 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
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
(= interest) → passion f
to have a passion for sth → avoir la passion de qch
to have a passion for doing sth → adorer faire qch
to have a passion for sth → avoir la passion de qch
to have a passion for doing sth → adorer faire qch
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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
passion
:passionflower
passion fruit
n → Passionsfrucht f
passionless
adj → leidenschaftslos
Passion play
n → Passionsspiel nt
Passion Sunday
Passion Week
n → Karwoche f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
passion
[ˈpæʃ/ən] na. → 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)
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
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
passion
(ˈpӕʃən) noun very strong feeling, especially of anger or love. He argued with great passion; He has a passion for chocolate.
ˈpassionate (-nət) adjective having very strong feelings; intense or emotional. a passionate woman; passionate hatred.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
passion
→ عِشْقٌ 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Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
pas·sion
n. pasión, emoción intensa.
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