passion — OET

passion

noun

1 the passion with which voters attach themselves to a particular political party:

fervour, ardour, intensity, enthusiasm, eagerness, zeal, zealousness, vehemence, vigour, avidity, avidness, feeling, emotion, fire, heat, fieriness, fierceness, excitement, energy, animation, gusto, zest, zestfulness, spirit, spiritedness, commitment, fanaticism, violence;

rare fervency, ardency, passionateness.

▷antonyms indifference, apathy.

2 he gradually worked himself up into a passion:

rage, blind rage, fit of rage/anger/temper, temper, towering rage, outburst of anger, tantrum, fury, frenzy, paroxysm, fever;

British, informal paddy;

British, informal , dated wax, bate, paddywhack.

3 Roman's deep voice was husky with passion:

love, desire, sexual love, sexual desire, lust, ardour, hunger, yearning, longing, craving, adoration, infatuation, lasciviousness, lustfulness;

French amour fou;

rare concupiscence, nympholepsy.

4 his passion for football:

enthusiasm, love, mania, keen interest, fascination, obsession, fanaticism, fixation, predilection, compulsion, appetite, relish, partiality, liking, interest, weakness, penchant, addiction, fondness;

informal thing, yen;

rare appetency.

5 English literature is something of a passion with me:

obsession, preoccupation, craze, mania, rage, hobby horse.

6 the Passion of Christ:

crucifixion, pain, suffering, agony, martyrdom;

rare martyrization.

passion Oxford Dictionary of English