passion
Noun
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is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional statessubtypes:
- 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
same as: passionateness -
is a type of: emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or qualitysubtypes: fieriness - a passionate and quick-tempered nature
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is a type of: desire - something that is desiredsame as: rage
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is a type of: irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logicsubtypes:
- 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
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is a type of: concupiscence, eros, physical attraction, sexual desire - a desire for sexual intimacy
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is a type of: object - the focus of cognitions or feelingssame as: love
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same as: passion of christ
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