passion

passion is a 7-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.
3. noun. Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. Disorder of the mind; madness.
6. noun. Passion week. See Passion week, below.
7. transitive verb. To give a passionate character to.
8. intransitive verb. To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
9. noun. the trait of being intensely emotional

   Synonyms: heat, warmth

10. noun. any object of warm affection or devotion

    "the theater was her first love"

    "he has a passion for cock fighting"

    Synonyms: love

11. noun. a strong feeling or emotion

    Synonyms: passionateness

12. noun. a feeling of strong sexual desire
13. noun. an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

    Synonyms: cacoethes, mania

14. noun. something that is desired intensely

    "his rage for fame destroyed him"

    Synonyms: rage

15. noun. the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion

Synonyms

heat, warmth, love, passionateness, cacoethes, mania, rage

Common word forms

passions, passional, passioned, passionful, passionless

Words from these letters

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