passion
Usage
What are other ways to say passion?
Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Sentiment is a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment.
Example Sentences
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He has also been able to indulge his passion for football, working with the Scotland national team and his beloved Patrick Thistle.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
“My passion in leading is making sure that I’m preserving um the legacy of my grandparents and my family,” Snyder-Ellingson said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Some listeners find continuity in Arirang's polished and experimental sound co-created by American producers and engineers, but others say this album is too highly produced, missing the raw passion of Dark & Wild.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Hansen once cited a childhood encounter with a photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon as the seed of his passion for space exploration.
From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026
Sense would resist delirium: judgment would warn passion.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
