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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That business launched my passion for starting companies, trying to make them successful and selling them.
"It's his goal and it's his passion and it's his job to elevate the sport of ping pong. That's what makes him great" even if, at times, that pursuit leads him down a dead-end path.
From Barron's
And his passion for theme parks never wavered, says Baxter, even as his heart issues worsened.
From Los Angeles Times
His "passion" for rare antiques has been put forward by his lawyer as being behind his alleged involvement.
From BBC
We often learn more about a public figure from the passions they license in others than from their own speeches.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
