Passion

Noun

 * 1) Any great, powerful emotion, especially love or hate.
 * 2) fervor, determination.
 * 3) An object of passionate love or strong interest.
 * 4)  The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
 * 5) A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
 * 6)  An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.

Adjectives for Passion
absorbing; acrimonious; afflicting; aimless; angry; ardent; autobiographical; awakened; black; blazing; bestial; base; bad; bitter; bittersweet; blended; boisterous; bottomless; boyish; brutal; burning; bursting; busy; capital; certain; chivalrous; choleric; coarse; comfortable; concentrated; conflicting; contending; contrary; corrosive; damnable; dark; deadly; deathly; deceased; deep; deforming; degrading; delicious; deluding; democratic; departed; determinate; devastating; diabolical; dimmed; distempered; disturbing; divine; earthly; electric; elemental; enduring; energetic; engendered; engrossing; enthusiastic; envied; errant; erratic; eternal; everlasting; evil; exacerbated; exceeding; exciting; exquisite; extraordinary; exultant; fantastical; favorite; fervent; fierce; fitful; flaming; foaming; foul; frantic; frivolous; frozen; frustrated; fugitive; fundamental; futile; gambling; generous; gnawing; gross; guilty; half-accomplished; headlong; hidden; heavenly; high; hurtful; hopeless; human; humble; honest; idealistic; idealized; idiotic; ignoble; illicit; imprudent; inborn; incestuous; indignant; infernal; inflammable; insatiable; instinctive; intellectual; intense; intermediate; invisible; involuntary; ireful; irregular; irrepressible; irresistible; jealous; kindred; lasting; lawless; licentious; loving; lurid; lustful; master; masterful; merry; mischievous; morbid; mortal; mutinous; mutual; new-found; noble; obtuse; original; outrageous; overmastering; overt; overwhelming; pale-mouthed; pallid; partisan; patriotic; pent-up; petty; philanthropic; pitying; preceding; present; prevailing; primal; primitive; private; prosperous; pseudo; radical; raging; rare; rash; religious; repressed; requisite; romantic; rude; ruling; selfish; secondary; silent; sophisticated; sordid; sore; sorry; southern; spectral; speechless; stifled; stirred; stormy; strange; subdued; strong; struggling; sudden; superior; suppressed; swelling; swift; tender; tempestuous; towering; thoughtful; thronging (pi); thwarted; torrid; tragic; tranquil; transient; transitory; triumphant; troubling; true; turbid; tyrannous; unaccustomed; unbridled; unchecked; undying; ungovernable; unhallowed; universal; unprofitable; unregulated; unrequited; unsuspected; untainted; untamed; untrained; untried; unwise; unworthy; variable; vehement; vengeful; veritable; vindictive; violent; virile; wanton; warning; wayward; wild; worried; worst; youthful; zealous; exaggerated.

Verbs for Passion
animate with—; arouse—; boil with—; bridle—; cherish—; declare—; distort with—; enchain by—; evoke—; extinguish—; fly into—; gratify—; impel by—; intensify—; nourish—; pledge to—; quicken with—; reciprocate—; redden with—; respond to—; restrain—; revive—; share—; unleash-—; vanquish—; vent—; —consumes; —cools; —inflames; —rules; —seethes; —simmers; tortures.

Derived terms

 * passionflower
 * passion fruit
 * Passion Sunday
 * passion pop

Related terms

 * passionate
 * passive


 * passivity
 * patience
 * patient

Thesaurus
abandon, ache, aching, admiration, adoration, affect, affection, affectivity, agape, agitation, agony, amorousness, amour, andromania, animation, anthem, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, ardency, ardor, aspiring, attachment, avidity, avidness, beloved, biological urge, blow, bluster, bodily appetite, bodily love, brawl, broil, brotherly love, brouhaha, bug, burning rage, cacophony, calenture, cantata, canticle, caritas, carnal desire, cathexis, chaos, charity, choice, chorale, church music, clawing, command, commitment, committedness, commotion, compulsion, conation, conatus, concern, concernment, concupiscence, conjugal love, convulsion, coveting, cramp, craving, craze, crazy fancy, cruciation, crucifixion, crush, curiosity, cut, decision, dedication, delirium, desideration, desire, determination, devotedness, devotion, devoutness, discretion, disposition, distress, disturbance, dolor, doxology, drive, eagerness, earnestness, ebullition, ecstasy, embroilment, emotion, emotional charge, emotional shade, enthusiasm, eromania, eroticism, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, eruption, excitement, experience, faith, faithful love, faithfulness, fanaticism, fancy, fantasy, fascination, feeling, feeling tone, ferment, fervency, fervidness, fervor, feverishness, fidelity, fieriness, fire, fire and fury, fit, flame, flap, fleshly lust, fomentation, fondness, foreboding, free choice, free love, free will, free-lovism, frenzy, fume, furious rage, furor, furor uterinus, furore, fury, fuss, glow, goatishness, gospel, gospel music, grief, gust, gusto, gut reaction, gynecomania, heart, heartiness, heartthrob, heat, heatedness, hell, hell upon earth, hero, hero worship, heroine, holocaust, hope, horme, horniness, horror, hot blood, hot pants, hubbub, hurrah, hurt, hymn, hymn-tune, hymnody, hymnology, hysteria, idol, idolatry, idolism, idolization, impassionedness, impression, inclination, indecency, infantile sexuality, infatuation, injury, intellectual curiosity, intensity, intention, intentness, interest, intoxication, introit, itch, keenness, laceration, lancination, lasciviousness, lesion, libidinousness, libido, lickerishness, like, likes, liking, liveliness, longing, love, lovemaking, loyalty, lust, lust for learning, lustfulness, lyricism, madness, mania, manic-depressive psychosis, married love, martyrdom, mass, matter of interest, mind, misery, motet, nasty blow, need, nightmare, nymphomania, objective, obsession, offertory, offertory sentence, oratorio, orgasm, orgy, outbreak, outburst, paean, pain, pandemonium, pang, panting, paroxysm, partiality, pash, passionateness, passions, persecution, physical love, pleasure, pleasure principle, polymorphous perversity, popular regard, popularity, predilection, presentiment, profound sense, prosodion, prurience, pruriency, psalm, purgatory, rack, racket, rage, rapture, ravishment, reaction, recessional, regard, relish, requiem, requiem mass, resolution, response, row, ruckus, rumpus, sacred music, satyriasis, savor, seizure, sensation, sense, sensuality, sensuousness, sentiment, seriousness, sex, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual love, sexual passion, shine, shock, sincerity, sore, sore spot, soul, spasm, special interest, spirit, spiritedness, spiritual, spiritual love, storm, storminess, stress, stress of life, stroke, suffering, taste, tearing passion, tempest, tempestuousness, tender feeling, tender passion, tender spot, the Eumenides, the Furies, thirst for knowledge, throes, torment, torture, towering rage, transport, truelove, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, undercurrent, uproar, upset, urge, uxoriousness, vehemence, venereal appetite, verve, vigor, violence, vivaciousness, vivacity, volition, want, wanting, warmth, warmth of feeling, weakness, whirlwind, white spiritual, wildness, will, will and pleasure, will power, wish, wish fulfillment, worship, wound, wrench, yearning, yen, zeal, zealotry, zealousness, zest, zestfulness

Etymology
Via, from passio:, noun of action from perfect passive participle passus:, from deponent verb pati:.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"p{S@n/}}

Translations

 * Arabic: عاطفة
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܫܐ (ħašā’)
 * Hebrew: חשא (ħašā’)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: ڤیان
 * Latin: perturbatio
 * Maltese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: pasiune
 * Russian:, аффект
 * Scottish Gaelic: dìoghras, dèine sonas , fearg
 * Serbo-Croatian: страст, strast
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , lidelse, , , hänförelse,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: جذبہ


 * Arabic: عزم
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic: ákafi
 * Latin: perturbatio
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dìoghras, dèine
 * Slovene:


 * Arabic:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: intohimo, intohimon kohde
 * German: ,
 * Greek: ,


 * Hungarian:
 * Latin: perturbatio
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܫܐ (ħašā’)
 * Hebrew: חשא (ħašā’)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: πάθη
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: passía
 * Japanese: 受難 (じゅなん, junan)
 * Latin: passio
 * Romanian: patimi


 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܫܐ (ħašā’)
 * Hebrew: חשא (ħašā’)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, kärsimysnäytelmä


 * German:
 * Latin: passio
 * Slovene: pasijon
 * Volapük: Lügadramat

Noun
passion



Noun

 * 1)  passion

Etymology
passio:, ultimately from patior:. Cognate with patience: