passion
A true desire sustained or prolonged.
Other meanings
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
“We share a passion for books.”
Fervor, determination.
Related words
- counterpassion
- dispassion
- empassion
- impassionate
- mispassion
- outpassion
- passional
- Passionist
- passionless
- passionlike
- passionproof
- passiontini
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "passio" (suffering).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “passion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.