passion has definitions from the fields of sexuality,psychology,medicine
1
[ noun ] strong feeling or emotion

Synonyms

passionateness

Used in print

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

Being somewhat delicate in health , at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe , for which he at_once developed a passion , so that he spent nearly all_of the following ten years abroad , at_first in Italy , then in Greece , Egypt , Asia_Minor , and Palestine .

2
[ noun ] intense passion or emotion

Synonyms

heat warmth

Related terms

emotionality inflame

3
[ noun ] (sexuality) a feeling of strong sexual desire

Used in print

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

Mauve colored mouths that had never known anything sweeter than the taste of new wine and the passion of man 's tongue had not smiled , but had condemned again_and_again .

Related terms

sexual_desire

4
[ noun ] (psychology) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

Synonyms

mania cacoethes

Used in print

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

This passion brings_on a fit which proves fatal .

5
[ noun ] any object of warm affection or devotion

Synonyms

love

Examples

"the theater was her first love" or "he has a passion for cock fighting"

Used in print

(William Maxwell, The Chateau....)

Music could not be Eugene 's passion .

Related terms

object love

6
[ noun ] something that is desired intensely

Synonyms

rage

Examples

"his rage for fame destroyed him"

Related terms

desire

7
[ noun ] (medicine) the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion

Related terms

agony

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