Meaning of passion | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A true desire sustained or prolonged.
   countable, uncountable
2. The sufferings of Jesus Christ from the night of the Last Supper to the Crucifixion.
3. Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
   countable, uncountable
4. very strong feeling, especially of anger or love. He argued with great passion; He has a passion for chocolate. passie عاطِفَه، هَوى ، إنْفِعال страст paixão vášeň die Leidenschaft lidenskab; passion πάθοςpasión kirg شور و حرارت intohimo passionיצר, תשוקה लगाव strast, zanos szenvedély nafsu ástríða passione 情熱 열정 aistra, potraukis aizrautība; kaisle; milzīga vēlme keghairahan hartstochtlidenskapnamiętność, pasja شهادت، دشهاد خو ( لكه عيسى (ع) چې ددرد په وخت كښې وګالل ) جذبه، هيجان، قار، مينه،...
   especially
5. inertia, idleness (the opposite of action)
6. Fervor, determination.
   countable, uncountable
7. having very strong feelings; intense or emotional. a passionate woman; passionate hatred. passievol إنْفِعالي، عاطِفي، سَريع الغَضَب страстен ardente vášnivý leidenschaftlich lidenskabelig; passioneret παράφορος, σφοδρόςapasionado kirglik پر شور intohimoinen passionnéנלהב, יצרי तीव्र, उत्‍कट strastven, vatren szenvedélyes bernafsu ástríðufullur appassionato; passionale 情熱的な 열정적인 aistringas, karštas aizrautīgs; kaislīgs ghairah hartstochtelijklidenskapelig, brennende, heftignamiętny قار، هيجان...
8. An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
   countable, uncountable
9. pasión, emoción intensa.
10. Strong or powerful emotion: a crime of passion.
11. Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
    countable, uncountable
12. A state of strong sexual desire or love: "His desire flared into a passion he could no longer check" (Barbara Taylor Bradford).
13. The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
    capitalized, countable, uncountable, usually
14. Boundless enthusiasm: His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
15. A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
    countable, uncountable
16. An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger: He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
17. Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
18. Passiona. The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
19. The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
20. Martyrdom: the passion of Saint Margaret.
21. The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
22. ardent love or affection
23. An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
24. Disorder of the mind; madness.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“An oil lamp burned upon a high, old-fashioned mantel, casting its dim rays over a dozen repulsive figures. All but one were men. The other was a woman of about thirty. Her face, marked by low passions and dissipation, might once have been lovely.”

“We share a passion for books.”

“That was partly because of a swirling wind that made precision passing difficult and also a derby atmosphere where the emphasis seemed to be on passion rather than football.”

“It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.”

“We shared a night of passion.”

“Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them that be ſinners and repentant, great comforte, and conſolacion, to obteine remiſſion of ſinne, by vertue of Chriſtes paſſion, and adminiſtracion of his ſacramentes at the miniſters handes, ordained for that purpoſe, [...]”

“a cardiac passion”

“A Body at reſt affords us no Idea of any active Power to move; and when it is ſet in motion its ſelf, that Motion is rather a Paſſion, than an Action in it: [...]”

“The Differences of Impreſsible and Not Impreſsible; Figurable and Not Figurable; Mouldable and Not Mouldable; Sciſsile and Not Sciſsile; And many other Paſsions of Matter, are Plebeian Notions, applied vnto the Inſtruments and Vſes which Men ordinarily practiſe; [...]”

“[...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.”

“The fit is momentary, vpon a thought / He will againe be well. If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not.”

“Empty bread, empty mouths, combien réaction. Empty bread, empty mouths, talk about the Passion. Not everyone can carry the weight of the world. Not everyone can carry the weight of the world.”

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