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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Her passion was to become a personal trainer, but on her council estate, she says, people were "putting my mum down" telling her that her daughter would never amount to much.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
On the social media profile, Allen said he was an engineer with a passion for game development, based in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area.
From Barron's • Apr. 26, 2026
Asked what made a good tiramisu, Carnevale said: "A very good coffee, a nice and firm cream, and also a lot of passion".
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
So began Gitter’s lifelong obsession with collecting Japanese art and his eventual passion for self-taught artists from the American South.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
This singular passion did not long remain concealed from the Goddess of Passionate Love.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing passion
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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