passion
a strong feeling or emotion
How often you will meet it
Rank 860 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 21,386 times across 173,643 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a strong feeling or emotion also: passionateness
- the trait of being intensely emotional also: heat, warmth
- something that is desired intensely also: rage his rage for fame destroyed him
- an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action also: mania, cacoethes
- a feeling of strong sexual desire
- any object of warm affection or devotion also: love the theater was her first lovehe has a passion for cock fighting
passion in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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They know how useful passion is for publication.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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But is Reason still waiting for Passion to spend itself?
John Marr and Other Poems · Herman Melville · Chapter 1
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Barbarians and even savages share with the most highly civilised peoples this passion for fiction.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1
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She taught her the duty of obedience and the sin of pride and of passion.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1
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The cause of this awful outbreak of human passion was the murder of a four-year-old child, daughter of a man named Vance.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1