passion
1. a strong feeling or emotion (Freq. 4) • Syn: passionateness • Derivationally related forms: passionate (for: passionateness) • Hypernyms: feeling • Hyponyms: infatuation, wildness, abandon, ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness, storminess 2. the trait of being intensely emotional (Freq. 3) • Syn: heat, warmth • Derivationally related forms: heat (for: heat) • Hypernyms: emotionality, emotionalism • Hyponyms: fieriness 3. something that is desired intensely (Freq. 1) - his rage for fame destroyed him • Syn: rage • Hypernyms: desire 4. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action (Freq. 1) • Syn: mania, cacoethes • Derivationally related forms: manic (for: mania) • Hypernyms: irrational motive • Hyponyms: agromania, dipsomania, alcoholism, potomania, egomania, kleptomania, logorrhea, logomania, monomania, possession, necrophilia, necrophilism, necromania, phaneromania, pyromania, trichotillomania 5. any object of warm affection or devotion (Freq. 1) - the theater was her first love - he has a passion for cock fighting • Syn: love • Derivationally related forms: love (for: love) • Hypernyms: object 6. a feeling of strong sexual desire (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction
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