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Definition of Passion

Passion A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross. The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action. Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents. The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill. Disorder of the mind; madness. Passion week. See Passion week, below. To give a passionate character to. To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated. Related Definitions: Abnormal, Acted, Action, Activity, Affected, Agent, Agitated, Also, Ambition, An, And, Anger, Any, As, Avarice, Be, Being, Below, Between, By, Capacity, Cardiac, Character, Christ, Condition, Controlling, Cross, Death, Desire, Disorder, Distress, Drink, Emotion, Enduring, Excited, Experience, External, Extreme, Extremely, Faculty, Fear, For, From, Garden, Give, Hate, Have, His, Imposed, In, Inflicted, Influence, Influenced, Inordinate, Is, It, Itself, Jealously, Last, Love, Madness, Mind, Of, Opposed, Or, Orator, Pain, Particular, Passion, Passionate, Passive, Rhetorical, See, Sensitive, Sentiment, Should, Skill, So, Something, Sorrow, Specifically, State, Subjection, Such, Suffer, Suffering, Supper, Susceptibility, The, Time, To, Under, Upon, War, Week, Well, When, Which, Wrath

Passion Quotations The law is reason, free from passion. Aristotle Live with passion! Tony Robbins Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. Oscar Wilde It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion Translations passion in Danish is ild passion in Dutch is gloed, vuur passion in Finnish is intohimo passion in French is passion, ardeur passion in German is Leidenschaft passion in Italian is ardore, passione passion in Latin is cupido, amor passion in Swedish is vrede, passion, lidelse

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