English noun: passion | |||
1. | passion (feeling) a strong feeling or emotion | ||
Synonyms | passionateness | ||
Broader (hypernym) | feeling | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | abandon, ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire, infatuation, storminess, wildness | ||
2. | passion (attribute) the trait of being intensely emotional | ||
Synonyms | heat, warmth | ||
Broader (hypernym) | emotionalism, emotionality | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | fieriness | ||
3. | passion (state) something that is desired intensely | ||
Samples | His rage for fame destroyed him. | ||
Synonyms | rage | ||
Broader (hypernym) | desire | ||
4. | passion (motive) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | ||
Synonyms | cacoethes, mania | ||
Broader (hypernym) | irrational motive | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | agromania, alcoholism, dipsomania, egomania, kleptomania, logomania, logorrhea, monomania, necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism, phaneromania, possession, potomania, pyromania, trichotillomania | ||
5. | passion (feeling) a feeling of strong sexual desire | ||
Broader (hypernym) | concupiscence, eros, physical attraction, sexual desire | ||
6. | passion (cognition) any object of warm affection or devotion | ||
Samples | The theater was her first love. He has a passion for cock fighting. | ||
Synonyms | love | ||
Broader (hypernym) | object | ||
7. | Passion (state) the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion | ||
Synonyms | Passion of Christ | ||
Broader (hypernym) | agony, excruciation, suffering | ||