passion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A true desire sustained or prolonged.

   An oil lamp burned upon a high, old-fashioned mantel, casting its dim rays over a dozen repulsive figures. All but one were men. The other was a woman of about thirty. Her face, marked by low passions and dissipation, might once have been lovely.

2. 2
   noun

   Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.

   We share a passion for books.

3. 3
   noun

   An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

   It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.

4. 4
   noun

   Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.

   We shared a night of passion.

5. 5
   noun

   The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.

   Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them that be ſinners and repentant, great comforte, and conſolacion, to obteine remiſſion of ſinne, by vertue of Chriſtes paſſion, and adminiſtracion of his ſacramentes at the miniſters handes, ordained for that purpoſe, [...]

6. 6
   noun

   Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.

   a cardiac passion

7. 7
   noun

   The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition

   A Body at reſt affords us no Idea of any active Power to move; and when it is ſet in motion its ſelf, that Motion is rather a Paſſion, than an Action in it: [...]

8. 8
   noun

   The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

   The Differences of Impreſsible and Not Impreſsible; Figurable and Not Figurable; Mouldable and Not Mouldable; Sciſsile and Not Sciſsile; And many other Paſsions of Matter, are Plebeian Notions, applied vnto the Inſtruments and Vſes which Men ordinarily practiſe; [...]

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- Proto-Italic *patosder.? Proto-Indo-European *pet-der.? Latin patior Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin passiōbor. Old English passion ▲ Latin passiōbor. Old French passionbor. Middle English passioun English passion From Middle English passioun, passion, from Old French passion (and in part from Old English passion), from Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb patior (“to suffer”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”), see also Old English…