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 studied the subject in graduate school, earning a doctorate in statistics, and then took his passion to Wall Street, where what isn’t evident is often key.
From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026
Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan – born Robert Allen Zimmerman – took his stage name from Thomas, while former US president Jimmy Carter had a life-long passion for his work.
From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026
Hughes' original passion, sport and fitness, still lingers.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026
But some people retain a desire to pursue their passion into their later years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026
Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing passion
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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