Text: 1 depth of feeling<candidates for citizenship reciting the oath of allegiance to the United States with all the ardor that they could muster>Synonymsemotion, fervency, fervidness, fervor, heat, intensity, passion, vehemence, warmthRelated Wordshistrionics, mawkishness, melodrama, sappiness, sentimentality; eagerness, earnestness, enthusiasm, excitement, gusto, zest; fanaticism, fever, fire, hot-bloodedness, infatuation, mania, obsession, zeal; compassion, responsiveness, sympathy, tendernessNear Antonymsaloofness, calmness, coldness, collectedness, composure, coolness, detachedness, dryness, phlegm, reserve, reservedness, reticence, taciturnity; apathy, indifference, unconcern; stiffness, woodennessAntonymsimpassivity 2 urgent desire or interest<in my ardor to get started on the hike, I forgot to pack a canteen>— see eagerness

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