| passion | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. passion, passionateness | 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. |
| ~ 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" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. heat, passion, warmth | the trait of being intensely emotional. |
| ~ emotionalism, emotionality | emotional nature or quality. |
| ~ fieriness | a passionate and quick-tempered nature. |
| n. (state) | 3. passion, rage | something that is desired intensely.; "his rage for fame destroyed him" |
| ~ desire | something that is desired. |
| n. (motive) | 4. cacoethes, mania, 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. |
| ~ 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. |
| n. (feeling) | 5. passion | a feeling of strong sexual desire. |
| ~ concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire, eros | a desire for sexual intimacy. |
| n. (cognition) | 6. love, 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" |
| n. (state) | 7. passion, passion of christ | the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion. |
| ~ excruciation, suffering, agony | a state of acute pain. |
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