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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anger, passion |
| Synonyms: | agitation, ardor, desire, earnestness, excitement, ferocity, fervor, fever, fury, impetuosity, intensity, rage, vehemence, violence, warmth, zeal |
| Antonyms: | coolness, disinterest, frigidity |
| Main Entry: | love |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adoration; very strong liking |
| Synonyms: | adulation, affection, allegiance, amity, amorousness, amour, appreciation, ardency, ardor, attachment, case*, cherishing, crush, delight, devotedness, devotion, emotion, enchantment, enjoyment, fervor, fidelity, flame, fondness, friendship, hankering, idolatry, inclination, infatuation, involvement, like, lust, mad for, partiality, passion, piety, rapture, regard, relish, respect, sentiment, soft spot, taste, tenderness, weakness, worship, yearning, zeal |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appetite, passion |
| Synonyms: | animalism, aphrodisia, appetence, appetition, avidity, carnality, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, cupidity, desire, eroticism, excitement, fervor, greed, hunger, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, libido, licentiousness, longing, prurience, pruriency, salaciousness, salacity, sensualism, sensuality, thirst, urge, wantonness, weakness, yen |
| Antonyms: | chastity, disenchantment, disgust |
| Main Entry: | passion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong emotion |
| Synonyms: | affection, affectivity, agony, anger, animation, ardor, dedication, devotion, distress, dolor, eagerness, ecstasy, excitement, feeling, fervor, fire, fit, flare-up, frenzy, fury, heat, hurrah, indignation, intensity, ire, joy, misery, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, rage, rapture, resentment, sentiment, spirit, storm, suffering, temper, transport, vehemence, warmth, wrath, zeal, zest |
| Antonyms: | calm, calmness |
| Main Entry: | piety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devotion, religiousness |
| Synonyms: | allegiance, application, ardor, belief, devoutness, docility, dutifulness, duty, faith, fealty, fervor, fidelity, godliness, grace, holiness, loyalty, obedience, passion, religion, religiosity, reverence, sanctity, veneration, zeal |
| Antonyms: | impiety, irreverence |
| Main Entry: | soul |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | psyche, inspiration, energy |
| Synonyms: | anima, animating principle, animation, animus, ardor, bosom, bottom, breast, breath of life, cause, conscience, courage, disposition, ego, elan vital, essence, feeling, fervor, force, genius, heart, individuality, intellect, intelligence, life, marrow, mind, nobility, noumenon, personality, pith, pneuma, principle, quintessence, reason, recesses of heart, secret self, spirit, spiritual being, stuff, substance, thought, vital force, vitality, vivacity |
| Antonyms: | body |
| Main Entry: | strength |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intensity |
| Synonyms: | clout, cogency, concentration, depth, effectiveness, efficacy, energy, extremity, fervor, force, juice*, kick*, potency, power, resolution, spirit, vehemence, vigor, virtue |
| Antonyms: | enervation, lethargy, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | transport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delight |
| Synonyms: | ardor, bliss, cloud nine, ecstasy, enchantment, enthusiasm, euphoria, fervor, happiness, heaven, passion, rapture, ravishment, rhapsody, seventh heaven |
| Antonyms: | boredom, dislike, indifference |
| Main Entry: | violence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme force, intensity |
| Synonyms: | abandon, acuteness, assault, attack, bestiality, bloodshed, blowup, brutality, brute force, clash, coercion, compulsion, confusion, constraint, cruelty, destructiveness, disorder, disturbance, duress, ferocity, fervor, fierceness, fighting, flap, foul play, frenzy, fury, fuss, harshness, murderousness, onslaught, passion, power, raging, rampage, roughness, ruckus, rumble, savagery, severity, sharpness, storm, storminess, struggle, terrorism, tumult, turbulence, uproar, vehemence, wildness |
| Antonyms: | passivity, peace, peacefulness |
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