passion
noun
1. a strong feeling or emotion
Similar word(s): passionateness
Definition categories: feeling
2. the trait of being intensely emotional
Definition categories: attribute, emotionalism, emotionality
3. something that is desired intensely
Similar word(s): rage
Definition categories: state, desire
4. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Similar word(s): cacoethes, mania
Definition categories: motive
5. a feeling of strong sexual desire
Definition categories: feeling, concupiscence, eros
6. any object of warm affection or devotion
- he has a passion for cock fighting
Similar word(s): love
Definition categories: thought, object
7. the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion
Definition categories: state, agony, excruciation, suffering
Sentences with passion as a noun:
- We share a passion for books.
- It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.
- a cardiac passion
- […] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.
verb
1. (obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
2. (transitive) To give a passionate character to.