passion

Meanings

• a strong feeling or emotion
• the trait of being intensely emotional
• something that is desired intensely
• an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
• a feeling of strong sexual desire
• any object of warm affection or devotion
  • "he has a passion for cock fighting"
• the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion

Synonyms

cacoethes, heat, love, mania, Passion of Christ, passionateness, rage, warmth