Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.
- 3noun
Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
Disorder of the mind; madness.
- 6noun
Passion week. See Passion week, below.
- 7transitive verb
To give a passionate character to.
- 8intransitive verb
To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
- 9noun
the trait of being intensely emotional
- 10noun
any object of warm affection or devotion
"the theater was her first love"
"he has a passion for cock fighting"
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- 11noun
a strong feeling or emotion
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- 12noun
a feeling of strong sexual desire
- 13noun
an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
- 14noun
something that is desired intensely
"his rage for fame destroyed him"
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- 15noun
the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion
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