PASSION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
Meaning of passion in English
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love I have a great love and respect for her. adoration She described her complete adoration of her brother. romance Their relationship was nothing but romance and bliss. passion The passion had gone out of their relationship. infatuation No one expected their infatuation with each other to last. crush He had a crush on his French tutor.
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(Definition of passion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of passion
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His passion for architecture arose from a belief that good design enhanced the life of those that experienced it.
He believed that only very few men are gifted with intellectual faculties that can rise above mere passions.
These passions, properly speaking, produce good and evil and proceed not from them, like the other affections.
The lyrics are mildly plaintive love poems and the music does not so much excite passion as entertain soothingly.
According to some understandings of human freedom, it makes no sense to speak of a response to appetite or passion as a voluntary act.
While ' craft ' was a foil for ' conscience ', virtue and liberty were complemented by - indeed, unattainable without - true religion, which moderated the passions.
The first draft is always the best, because that's the one you write with maximum passion and curiosity.
The orchestra now intones a long, painful, hymn-like passage, spending its remaining passion .
Against the rationalists they argued that some passions were positive.
This book, the last he published before his death last year, manages coherently to reflect all his passions.
Society must be guided by reason rather than the passions of superstition and religious prejudice.
Here he depicts a congregation in high passion , from the wide-mouthed preacher to the disorderly listeners, weeping, eating, fainting, and otherwise carrying on.
Unfortunately, as the reader now knows, officials at our school lacked that commitment and hence that passion .
Even the ruthless radicalism with which the lovers embrace and pursue their passion to the exclusion of all else speaks to the new, harsher spirit.
This passion for understanding was the product of conjuncture, the simultaneous explosion of global crisis-intellectual, economic, political and moral.
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Translations of passion
in Chinese (Traditional)
激情,熱情, 強烈情感, 耶穌受難…
in Chinese (Simplified)
激情,热情, 强烈情感, 耶稣受难…
in Spanish
pasión, la Pasión, pasión [feminine…
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paixão, a Paixão, paixão [feminine]…
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अतिशय तीव्र भावना उदा.लैंगिक आकर्षण, प्रेम, तिरस्कार…
passion [feminine], passion…
अत्यंत शक्तिशाली भावावेश, वासना, अनुराग…
એક ઉત્કટ ઈચ્છા/કામના/વાસના ઉદાહરણ તરીકે/જેમ કે - જાતીય-વિજાતીય આકર્ષણ, પ્રેમ સ્નેહ, નફરત…
lidenskap [masculine], innlevelse [masculine], sinnsbevegelse [masculine]…
شدید جذبہ, جوش و خروش, شوق…
страсть, страстность, пыл…
తీవ్ర ఆవేశం, చాలా శక్తివంతమైన మనోభావన: ఉదాహరణకు లైంగిక ఆకర్షణ, ప్రేమ…
رَغبة عارِمة, شَغَف, شُعور جَيّاش…
তীব্র আসক্তি, তীব্র আবেগ, যৌন আকর্ষণ…
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