passion
Noun
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A strong feeling or emotion (synset 107496036)
hypernym: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional stateshyponym:
- infatuation - a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
- abandon, wildness - a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
- ardor, ardour, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire - feelings of great warmth and intensity
- storminess - violent passion in speech or action
synonym: passionateness -
The trait of being intensely emotional (synset 104635549)
hypernym: emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or qualityhyponym: fieriness - a passionate and quick-tempered nature
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Something that is desired intensely (synset 114062661)
hypernym: desire - something that is desiredsynonym: rage
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An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action (synset 109204454)
hypernym: irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logichyponym:
- agromania - an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
- alcoholism, dipsomania, potomania - an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess
- egomania - an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
- kleptomania - an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
- logomania, logorrhea - pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking
- monomania, possession - a mania restricted to one thing or idea
- necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism - an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies
- phaneromania - an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting)
- pyromania - an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things
- trichotillomania - an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair
- A feeling of strong sexual desire (synset 107503928)
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Any object of warm affection or devotion (synset 105821331)
hypernym: object - the focus of cognitions or feelingssynonym: love
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The suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion (synset 114348629)
synonym: passion of christ
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