passion

passion

noun

Definition of PASSION

1

a feeling of strong or constant regard for and dedication to someone <married at the age of 18, they share a passion that has lasted for over half a century>

Synonyms affection, attachment, devotedness, devotion, fondness, passion

Related Words appetite, fancy, favor, like, liking, partiality, preference, relish, taste; craving, crush, desire, infatuation, longing, lust, yearning; ardor, eagerness, enthusiasm, fervor, zeal; appreciation, esteem, estimation, regard, respect; adoration, adulation, deification, idolatry, idolization, worship; allegiance, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, loyalty, steadfastness

Near Antonyms allergy, animosity, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, disfavor, dislike, enmity, hostility; abhorrence, disgust, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion; misanthropy

Antonyms abomination, hate, hatred, loathing, rancor

2

a strong but often short-lived liking for another person <her passion passed when the next hunky movie star arrived on the scene>

Synonyms infatuation, mash, passion

Related Words fixation, obsession; affection, devotion, fondness, love; craze, fad, rage, vogue

3

a strong wish for something <a passion to become a doctor>

Synonyms appetency, appetite, craving, drive, hankering, hunger, itch, jones [slang], letch, longing, lust, passion, pining, thirst, thirstiness, urge, yearning, yen

Related Words compulsion, impulse, impulsion, will, zeal; liking, love, taste, weakness; eagerness, impatience; want, wish; necessity, need, requirement; obsession; acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, greed, greediness, rapaciousness, rapacity; cacoëthes, mania

Near Antonyms abhorrence, abomination, allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disliking, distaste, hatred, loathing, nausea, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion; apathy, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern

4

a subjective response to a person, thing, or situation <people are sometimes slaves to their own passions>

Synonyms chord, emotion, passion, sentiment

Related Words impression, perception, sensation, sense; angle, attitude, outlook, perspective, standpoint, viewpoint; belief, conviction, judgment (or judgement), mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, verdict, view; receptiveness, receptivity, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity

Near Antonyms insensitiveness, insensitivity, unfeelingness

5

depth of feeling <your passion for your cause is admirable, but you still can't insult people who disagree with you>

Synonyms ardency, emotion, enthusiasm, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fire, heat, intenseness, intensity, passion, passionateness, vehemence, violence, warmth, white heat

Related Words cathexis; emotionalism, emotionality, histrionics, mawkishness, melodrama, sappiness, sentimentality; eagerness, earnestness, excitement, gusto, keenness, zest; fanaticism, fever, hot-bloodedness, infatuation, mania, obsession, zeal; compassion, responsiveness, sentiment, sympathy, tenderness; torridity, torridness

Near Antonyms aloofness, calmness, collectedness, composure, detachedness, dryness, phlegm, reserve, reservedness, reticence, taciturnity; apathy, indifference, stoicism, stoniness, unconcern; stiffness, woodenness; chilliness, coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness

Antonyms impassiveness, impassivity, insensibility, insensibleness, insensitiveness, insensitivity

passions plgeneral emotional condition <people who are swayed by their passions and not by reason>

Synonyms heartstrings, passions, sensibilities

Related Words cheer, frame, humor, mode, mood, spirit, temper

7

intense sexual desire <an addiction to online pornography that was clear proof that he had become a slave to passion>

Synonyms ardor, concupiscence, eros, eroticism, horniness, itch, lustfulness, passion

Related Words erotomania, nymphomania, satyriasis; lasciviousness, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, lickerishness, randiness, salaciousness, wantonness

Near Antonyms frigidity

8

sexual appetite <the kind of pent-up passion that comes from having spent the winter in remote isolation>

Synonyms concupiscence, eroticism, horniness, hots, itch, lech, letch, libidinousness, lust, lustfulness, lustihood, passion, salaciousness

Related Words libido; ardor, heat, rut; erotomania, hypersexuality, lecherousness, lechery, nymphomania, satyriasis; venery

Near Antonyms abstinence, celibacy, chastity; frigidity, frigidness