passion
[noun]
Synonyms:
- love, ardour, desire, infatuation, lust
- emotion, ardour, excitement, feeling, fervour, fire, heat, intensity, warmth, zeal
- rage, anger, fit, frenzy, fury, outburst, paroxysm, storm
- mania, bug (informal), craving, craze, enthusiasm, fascination, obsession

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Antonyms: dispassion
Related Words: coveting, aiming, aspiring, panting, outbreak, outburst, heartthrob, dedication, devotion, eagerness, lust, lyricism, ecstasy, rapture, transport, fury, rage, amorousness, sensuality, sensuousness

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English Thesaurus: hobby, interest, pastime, passion, pursuit, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

Passion noun
the Passion the suffering and death of Jesus Christ

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

pas‧sion W3 /ˈpæʃən/ noun
[Date: 1100-1200; Language: Old French; Origin: Late Latin passio 'suffering', from Latin pati 'to suffer']

1. [uncountable and countable] a very strong feeling of sexual love ⇒ desire:
His eyes were burning with passion.
passion for
her passion for a married man

2. [uncountable and countable] a very strong belief or feeling about something
with passion
He spoke with considerable passion about the importance of art and literature.
The issue arouses strong passions.

3. [countable] a very strong liking for something
passion for
his passion for football
Gardening was her great passion.

4. fly into a passion literary to suddenly become very angry
⇒ crime of passion at crime(5)

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

passion
noun
I. strong sexual love/attraction
ADJ. grand, great She didn't believe in grand passion or love at first sight. She was his first great passion.
all-consuming, blind, consuming, fierce, fiery, intense | tender | animal, romantic, sexual
QUANT. surge, wave
VERB + PASSION arouse, awaken No one had ever aroused his passion as much as Sandra.
be filled with, feel the great passion he felt for her
PASSION + VERB cool, wane
PREP. with ~ They kissed with passion.
~ between The passion between them had cooled.
~ for his all-consuming passion for her
PHRASES a night of passion They spent a night of passion in a hotel.
the object of sb's passion the young girl who was the object of his passion

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

passion
II. strong feeling
ADJ. considerable, great, high, real a woman of great passion There were moments of high passion in the game.
VERB + PASSION have A writer should have passion.
arouse, rouse This issue always arouses passion.
PREP. with ~ He argued his case with great passion.
PHRASES a crime of passion She killed her husband's lover in a crime of passion.
full of passion a speech full of passion

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

passion
III. strong liking for/interest in sth
ADJ. all-consuming, consuming, great, real | abiding, genuine, lifelong his lifelong passion for aeroplanes
VERB + PASSION develop, have | share They shared a passion for food.
indulge She had very little time to indulge her passion for painting.
PREP. ~ for He developed a real passion for acting.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

passion

great passion
The orchestra plays with great passion.
strong passions
In this area, the issue has already stirred strong passions.
arouse/stir passions (=cause strong feelings in people)
The case aroused passions throughout the country.
passions run high (=people are very excited, angry, or upset)
The judge's decision is expected today and passions are running high.
a great passion
Birds were my great passion.
a lifelong passion
His lifelong passion for natural history began in childhood.
a consuming passion (=a very strong interest, or something you are very interested in)
The young Wordsworth had a consuming passion for poetry.
For years, acting and the stage had been his consuming passion.
have a passion for something
She had a passion for music.
indulge your passion for something (=do something that you enjoy doing very much)
The money enabled him to indulge his passion for horses.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

hobby an activity that you enjoy, and that you like to spend time doing when you are not working:
Stamp collecting has been a hobby of mine since I was a child.
We had to write an essay about our hobbies.
interest something that you are interested in and like doing or talking about:
Her interests were the same as most young girls – pop music, boys and clothes.
pastime especially written something that you do because it is enjoyable or interesting:
Gardening was her mother's favourite pastime.
In England talking about the weather is a national pastime (=something that a lot of people in a country do).
passion something that you feel extremely interested in and care a lot about:
Football was his passion.
For the French, food is a passion.
pursuit formal an activity that you spend time doing – used especially in the following phrases:
The hills and lakes are used for a variety of outdoor pursuits.
Her son wasn't really interested in academic pursuits.
Mountaineering, golfing, and fishing were among his leisure pursuits

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

love to like someone very much and care a lot about them – used about people in your family or someone who you are sexually attracted to:
I love my wife and children very much.
Have you ever said ‘I love you’ and not really meant it?
adore to love and admire someone very much:
When she was a child she adored her father.
be in love (with somebody) to feel that you love someone and want to have a romantic relationship with them:
We were both young and very much in love.
Karen was in love with a man who was much older than her.
be infatuated with somebody to love someone a lot and keep thinking about them, in a way that seems silly because you do not know them very well:
He became infatuated with a woman he met at a conference.
have a crush on somebody to love and be sexually attracted to someone you are not having a relationship with, usually someone older:
Jane had a crush on the German teacher.
be crazy about somebody informal to love someone very much – used for emphasis:
She’s crazy about you.
be devoted to somebody to love someone very much and give them a lot of attention:
He was devoted to his wife and his children.
dote on somebody written to love someone very much, especially a much younger family member, and behave very kindly to them:
He dotes on his grandchildren.
be in love
Are you in love with her?
fall in love (=start being in love)
I fell in love with her the minute I saw her.
find love (=meet someone to love)
I never thought I would find love.
return sb’s love (=love someone who loves you)
Estella does not return Pip’s love.
love at first sight (=when you love someone as soon as you meet them)
For Marion and Ron it was love at first sight.
very much in love
They were obviously very much in love.
madly/deeply in love (=very much in love)
I married Dan because I was madly in love.
head over heels in love (=very much in love)
The two of them fell head over heels in love.
love is blind (=used to say that people do not notice the faults of the person they love)
Love is blind, I guess. How else could he stand to be with her?
true love (=real love)
She felt that she had finally found true love.
real love
You could see real love in their eyes.
romantic love
Romantic love was not always the reason for marriage.
sexual love
Venus was the Roman goddess of sexual love.
unrequited love (=love for someone who does not love you)
She had a secret, unrequited love for Harrison.
undying love (=love that does not stop)
She and I swore undying love.
passionate love
He wrote about his passionate love for her.
a love song/story
a tragic love story
a love letter
She found a love letter from another woman in his wallet.
affection noun [uncountable] a gentle feeling of love which makes you want to be kind to someone and show them that you love them – used especially about friends and members of your family:
My mother never showed us us any affection.
Alison and I had been at school together, and I felt great affection for her.
devotion noun [uncountable] very strong love for someone in which you want to give them a lot of attention and look after them – used especially about strong feelings of love for your wife, husband, children etc:
His recovery is largely due to the devotion of his wife and family
passion noun [uncountable] a strong and exciting feeling of love for someone you are extremely sexually attracted to:
He loved her still, with just the same passion as he always had.
There was no passion in their relationship.
infatuation noun [uncountable and countable] a strong feeling of love for someone, in which you cannot stop thinking about them, and which seems silly because you do not know them very well:
She hoped that his ridiculous infatuation would soon wear off.
His infatuation with Diane seemed to be growing.
a childhood infatuation
romance noun [uncountable] the feeling of loving someone and the nice things you do to show this – used about someone you are sexually attracted to:
The romance had gone out of their relationship.
In the UK, one in ten people have found romance over the Internet.
crush noun [countable] a very strong feeling of love and sexual attraction for someone such as a teacher or a famous person, especially when there is no chance of you having a relationship with that person because you are much younger than them :
She had a teenage crush on one of her teachers.
I had a big crush on Tom Cruise when I was growing up.
a schoolgirl crush

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

love noun [uncountable] a feeling of liking someone very much and caring a lot about them – used about people in your family, or someone you feel sexually attracted to:
All children need love, attention, and encouragement.
We don’t need words to express our love for each other.
affection noun [uncountable] a gentle feeling of love which makes you want to be kind to someone and show them that you love them – used especially about friends and members of your family:
My mother never showed us us any affection.
Alison and I had been at school together, and I felt great affection for her.
devotion noun [uncountable] very strong love for someone in which you want to give them a lot of attention and look after them – used especially about strong feelings of love for your wife, husband, children etc:
His recovery is largely due to the devotion of his wife and family
passion noun [uncountable] a strong and exciting feeling of love for someone you are extremely sexually attracted to:
He loved her still, with just the same passion as he always had.
There was no passion in their relationship.
infatuation noun [uncountable and countable] a strong feeling of love for someone, in which you cannot stop thinking about them, and which seems silly because you do not know them very well:
She hoped that his ridiculous infatuation would soon wear off.
His infatuation with Diane seemed to be growing.
a childhood infatuation
romance noun [uncountable] the feeling of loving someone and the nice things you do to show this – used about someone you are sexually attracted to:
The romance had gone out of their relationship.
In the UK, one in ten people have found romance over the Internet.
crush noun [countable] a very strong feeling of love and sexual attraction for someone such as a teacher or a famous person, especially when there is no chance of you having a relationship with that person because you are much younger than them :
She had a teenage crush on one of her teachers.
I had a big crush on Tom Cruise when I was growing up.
a schoolgirl crush

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