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passion (enc)

Passion

Noun1.passion - strong feeling or emotion
feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual"
infatuation - foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
wildness, abandon - a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger"
fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, ardor, ardour, fire - feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor"
2.passion - intense passion or emotion
emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality
3.passion - something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him"
desire - something that is desired
4.passion - an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
agromania - an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
dipsomania, potomania, alcoholism - an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
egomania - an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
kleptomania - an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
logomania, logorrhea - pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea
necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism - an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
phaneromania - an irresistible desire to pick a superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
pyromania - an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
trichotillomania - an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
5.passion - a feeling of strong sexual desire
concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire - a desire for sexual intimacy
6.passion - any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love" or "he has a passion for cock fighting";
object - the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection"
7.Passion - the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion
excruciation, suffering, agony - a state of acute pain

 

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