passion

passion
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. love; fervor, ardor, intensity, fever; infatuation, desire; emotion, rage, anger, fury; excitement; informal, predilection, preference. See feeling, violence.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Sexual deSire]
Syn. lust, craving, appetite, amorousness, concupiscence, sexual excitement; see also deSire 3 .
2. [Strong emotion]
Syn. emotion, feeling, ardor, outburst, intensity; see also anger , emotion , enthusiasm 1 , love 1 .
See Synonym Study at enthusiasm , feeling .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
1. intense emotion fervor, ardor, intensity, zeal, fire, heat, frenzy, vehemence, enthusiasm, devotion. ''The winds necessary to put everything in motion, though they often cause storms.''—Bernard de Fontenelle.
2. anger rage, fury, towering rage, *lather, wrath, *dither, hot blood.
3. love adoration, fondness, affection, amour, infatuation, ardor, lust, desire, sex drive, eroticism, appetite, aching.
4. intense interest obsession, mania, fixation, fancy, infatuation, liking, craze.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. Powerful, intense emotion: ardor, fervency, fervor, fire. See FEELINGS. 2. The passionate affection and desire felt by lovers for each other: amorousness, fancy, love, romance. See LOVE, SEX. 3. Sexual hunger: amativeness, concupiscence, desire, eroticism, erotism, itch, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, prurience, pruriency. See DESIRE, SEX. 4. A strong, enthusiastic liking for something: love, love affair, romance. See LOVE. 5. Passionate devotion to or interest in a cause or subject, for example: ardor, enthusiasm, fervor, fire, zeal, zealousness. See CONCERN, FEELINGS. 6. A subject or activity that inspires lively interest: craze, enthusiasm, mania, rage. See CONCERN. 7. An angry outburst: fit2, huff, tantrum, temper. Informal: conniption, conniption fit. See FEELINGS.

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