passion
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(noun) strong feeling or emotion |
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Synonyms: passionateness |
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Related Words: abandon, ardor, ardour, feeling, fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire, infatuation, wildness |
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(noun) a feeling of strong sexual desire |
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Related Words: concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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(noun) the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion |
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Related Words: agony, suffering |
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(noun) any object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love" or "he has a passion for cock fighting" |
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Synonyms: love |
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Related Words: object |
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(noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action |
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Synonyms: cacoethes, mania |
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Related Words: agromania, alcoholism, dipsomania, egomania, irrational motive, kleptomania, logomania, logorrhea, monomania, necromania, necrophilia, necrophilism, phaneromania, possession, potomania, pyromania, trichotillomania |
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(noun) something that is desired intensely; "his rage for fame destroyed him" |
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Synonyms: rage |
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Related Words: desire |
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(noun) intense passion or emotion |
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Synonyms: heat, warmth |
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Related Words: emotionalism, emotionality |
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