passion

1. A strong feeling or emotion (synset 107496036)
   is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states
   subtypes:

   • 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
2. The trait of being intensely emotional (synset 104635549)
   is a type of: emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality
   subtypes: fieriness - a passionate and quick-tempered nature
   same as: heat, warmth
3. Something that is desired intensely (synset 114062661)
   "his rage for fame destroyed him"
   is a type of: desire - something that is desired
   same as: rage
4. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action (synset 109204454)
   is a type of: irrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: cacoethes, mania
5. A feeling of strong sexual desire (synset 107503928)
   is a type of: concupiscence, eros, physical attraction, sexual desire - a desire for sexual intimacy
6. Any object of warm affection or devotion (synset 105821331)
   "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting"
   is a type of: object - the focus of cognitions or feelings
   same as: love
7. The suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion (synset 114348629)
   is a type of: agony, excruciation, suffering - a state of acute pain
   same as: passion of christ

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