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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The political passions that drove the American rebellion against Great Britain were hard to control.
For Moreno, who was born in Guatemala City, passion for musical theater was seeded during a trip to New York City with her family when she was 13 years old.
From Los Angeles Times
For dessert, try the taiyaki, a popular fish-shaped Japanese street food, which is served with a delicious passion fruit cream that I wanted to take to go because I liked it so much.
From Los Angeles Times
Thus live, dear Maggie, until God brings me back to you; and then … we will resign ourselves to a passion sanctified by love and marriage … Let us live for each other.
From Literature
"The key to Twig's longevity is our passion for the brand and the community itself. The people who come in week after week, and stayed loyal, are the reason we've been successful."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
