Definition of passion

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Passion (n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.

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Phlegmatic :: Phlegmatic (a.) Not easily excited to action or passion; cold; dull; sluggish; heavy; as, a phlegmatic person..
Impassible :: Impassible (a.) Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation..
Pathos :: Pathos (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry..
Distract :: Distract (v. t.) To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass..
Rampageous :: Rampageous (a.) Characterized by violence and passion; unruly; rampant.
Passion :: Passion (n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below..
Passionately :: Passionately (adv.) Angrily; irascibly.
Affection :: Affection (n.) Passion; violent emotion.
Immortification :: Immortification (n.) Failure to mortify the passions.
Mercy :: Mercy (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency..
Ad Hominem :: Ad hominem () A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the principles, interests, or passions of a man..
Boiling :: Boiling (a.) Heated to the point of bubbling; heaving with bubbles; in tumultuous agitation, as boiling liquid; surging; seething; swelling with heat, ardor, or passion..
Reason :: Reason (v. t.) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion..
Cool :: Cool (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate..
Sentiment :: Sentiment (a.) A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression.
Glow :: Glow (v. i.) To feel the heat of passion; to be animated, as by intense love, zeal, anger, etc.; to rage, as passior; as, the heart glows with love, zeal, or patriotism..
Impassioned :: Impassioned (p. p. & a.) Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse..
Storthing :: Stormy (superl.) Violent; passionate; rough; as, stormy passions..
Intemperance :: Intemperance (n.) The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions..
Desperado :: Desperado (n.) A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian..
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