passion
Usage
What are other ways to say passion?
Passion is strong or violent emotion, often so powerful that it takes over the mind or judgment: stirred to a passion of anger. Emotion is applied to an intensified feeling: agitated by emotion. Feeling is a general term for a subjective point of view as well as for specific sensations: to be guided by feeling rather than by facts; a feeling of sadness, of rejoicing. Sentiment is a mixture of thought and feeling, especially refined or tender feeling: Recollections are often colored by sentiment.
Example Sentences
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He was like, ‘Nah, I don’t think acting is my passion, but I’ll never forget those moments … You know what? On second thought, it depends on the script.’
From Los Angeles Times
Katie Robertson's passion for the bagpipes has gained her thousands of followers online.
From BBC
"Any hobbies or passions I had on the side were kind of just put on the side."
From BBC
Lucas in particular was driven as much by resentment of the old as passion for the new.
From Los Angeles Times
“I’ve been a victim of fashion, unjustly applying berry passion,” goes the final refrain.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
