Passion
['pæʃ(ə)n] or ['pæʃən]
['pæʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a strong feeling or emotion.
(noun.) a feeling of strong sexual desire.
(noun.) the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion.
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Definition
(n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
(n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.
(n.) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
(n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
(n.) Disorder of the mind; madness.
(n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below.
(v. t.) To give a passionate character to.
(v. i.) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Suffering (specifically that of Christ by crucifixion).[2]. Emotion, ardor, fervor, zeal, rapture, transport, excitement, impulse, glow, strong feeling.[3]. Pathos, warmth of feeling, tender emotion.[4]. Anger, resentment, wrath, indignation, fury.[5]. Love, affection, attachment, fondness, devotion.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Emotion, desire, ardor, vehemence, lust, auger, animation, excitement, warmth,feeling
ANT:Coolness, indifference, apathy, coldness, frigidity, iciness
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Definition
n. power of feeling pain or suffering: strong feeling or agitation of mind esp. rage: ardent love: eager desire: state of the soul when receiving an impression: suffering or passive condition as opposed to Action: the sufferings esp. the death of Christ: (pl.) excited conditions of mind.—ns. Passiflō′ra a genus of climbing herbs or shrubs the passion-flowers; Pass′ional Pass′ionary a book containing accounts of the sufferings of saints and martyrs.—adjs. Pass′ional influenced by passion; Pass′ionate moved by passion: showing strong and warm feeling: easily moved to anger: intense.—adv. Pass′ionately.—n. Pass′ionateness.—adj. Pass′ioned moved by passion: expressing passion.—ns. Pass′ion-flow′er a flower so called from a fancied resemblance to a crown of thorns the emblem of Christ's passion; Pass′ionist (R.C.) one of a religious congregation devoted to the commemoration of the Passion of Christ by missions &c.—adj. Pass′ionless free from passion: not easily excited to anger.—n. Pass′ion-mū′sic music to which words describing the sufferings and death of Christ are set.—adj. Pass′ion-pale (Tenn.) pale with passion.—ns. Pass′ion-play a religious drama representing the sufferings and death of Christ; Pass′ion-Sun′day the fifth Sunday in Lent; Pass′ion-week name commonly given in England to Holy-week (as being the week of Christ's passion); but according to proper rubrical usage the week preceding Holy-week.
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Examples
- People will pay as freely to gratify one passion as another, their resentment as their pride. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Thus it appears, that the principle, which opposes our passion, cannot be the same with reason, and is only called so in an improper sense. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She was jealous of him, but there was another and graver source of trouble in her passion for religious mysteries. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Her passion seemed to bleed to death, and there was nothing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He knew she had a passion for him, really. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Competition with a rival was what inspired him with most passion and energy, he said, and nothing on earth made him half so much in love. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- If you're quite convinced, that any foolish passion on my part is entirely over, I will wish you good afternoon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He was silent with cold passion of anger. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But this was neither love nor passion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Love looks and longs, and dares not; Passion hovers round, and is kept at bay; Truth and Devotion are scared. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Not that Emmy, being made aware of the honest Major's passion, rebuffed him in any way, or felt displeased with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- What is it but the worst and last form of intellectualism, this love of yours for passion and the animal instincts? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He's only feigning to be asleep now,' said the captain, in a high passion. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The mind is occupied by the multitude of the objects, and by the strong passions, that display themselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A fit of the gout produces a long train of passions, as grief, hope, fear; but is not derived immediately from any affection or idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The effect, then, of belief is to raise up a simple idea to an equality with our impressions, and bestow on it a like influence on the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Let us consider to what principle we can ascribe these passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And what opiate for his severe sufferings--what object for his strong passions--had he sought there? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The narrative called up the most revengeful passions of the time, and there was not a head in the nation but must have dropped before it. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The difference in the passions is a clear proof of a like difference in those ideas, from which the passions are derived. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- What power this woman has to keep these raging passions down! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The difficulty then is, why any objects ever cause pure love or hatred, and produce not always the mixt passions of respect and contempt. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The same frivolous passions, which influence their conduct, influence his. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The passions of love and hatred are always followed by, or rather conjoined with benevolence and anger. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A bas les grandes passions et les sévères vertus! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This difference in the imagination has a suitable effect on the passions; and this effect is augmented by another circumstance. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
Editor: Sharon