passion
has definitions from the fields of sexuality,psychology,medicine
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[ noun ] strong feeling or emotion
Synonyms 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 . Related terms |
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[ 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 |
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[ noun ] (psychology) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)This passion brings_on a fit which proves fatal . |
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[ noun ] (medicine) the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion
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