| NOUN | feeling | passion, passionateness | a strong feeling or emotion |
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| attribute | passion, heat, warmth | the trait of being intensely emotional | |
| state | passion, rage | something that is desired intensely | |
| motive | passion, mania, cacoethes | an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | |
| feeling | passion | a feeling of strong sexual desire | |
| cognition | passion, love | any object of warm affection or devotion | |
| state | Passion, Passion of Christ | the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion |
| Sounds | pae'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | A strong feeling or emotion. | |
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| Synonym | passionateness | |
| Narrower | ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness | Feelings of great warmth and intensity |
| infatuation | A foolish and usually extravagant passion or love / love or admiration | |
| storminess | Violent passion in speech or action | |
| wildness, abandon | A feeling of extreme / extreme emotional intensity | |
| Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
| Spanish | apasionamiento, pasión | |
| Catalan | apassionament, passió | |
| Meaning | The trait of being intensely emotional. | |
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| Synonyms | heat, warmth | |
| Narrower | fieriness | A passionate and quick-tempered nature |
| Broader | emotionality, emotionalism | emotional nature or quality |
| Spanish | acaloramiento, apasionamiento, ardor, exaltación, fervor, pasión, vehemencia | |
| Catalan | acalorament, apassionament, ardor, exaltacó, fervor, passió, vehemència | |
| Meaning | Something that is desired intensely. | |
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| Synonym | rage | |
| Broader | desire | Something that is desired |
| Spanish | ansia, pasión | |
| Catalan | ànsia, passió | |
| Meaning | An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action. | |
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| Synonyms | mania, cacoethes | |
| Narrower | agromania | An intense desire to be alone or out in the open |
| dipsomania, alcoholism, potomania | An intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | |
| egomania | An intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | |
| kleptomania | An irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive | |
| logorrhea, logomania | pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | |
| monomania, possession | A mania restricted to one thing or idea | |
| necrophilia, necrophilism, necromania | An irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | |
| phaneromania | An irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) | |
| pyromania | An uncontrollable desire to set fire to things | |
| trichotillomania | An irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | |
| Broader | irrational motive | A motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic |
| Spanish | manía | |
| Catalan | mania | |
| Meaning | A feeling of strong sexual desire. | |
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| Broader | sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction | A desire for sexual intimacy |
| Spanish | deseo, pasión | |
| Catalan | desig, passió | |
| Meaning | Any object of warm affection or devotion. | |
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| Example | "he has a passion for cock fighting" | |
| Synonym | love | |
| Broader | object | The focus of cognitions or feelings |
| Spanish | amor, devoción, pasión | |
| Catalan | amor, devoció, passió | |
| Meaning | The suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion. | |
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| Synonym | Passion of Christ | |
| Broader | agony, suffering, excruciation | A state of acute pain |
| Spanish | pasión | |
| Catalan | passió | |
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