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1. A strong feeling or emotion
   - passionateness
    
2. The trait of being intensely emotional
   - heat, warmth
    
3. Something that is desired intensely
   "his passion for fame destroyed him";
   - rage
    
4. An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
   - mania, cacoethes
    
5. A feeling of strong sexual desire
    
6. Any object of warm affection or devotion
   "he has a passion for cock fighting";
   - love

1. The suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion
   - Passion of Christ

Derived forms: passions

Type of: agony, concupiscence, desire, emotionalism, emotionality, eros, excruciation, feeling, irrational motive, object, physical attraction, sexual desire, suffering

Encyclopedia: Passion, Pain & Pleasure