n.
- strong and barely controllable emotion.
▸an outburst of such emotion.
- intense sexual love.
- an intense enthusiasm for something.
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(the Passion)
the suffering and death of Jesus.
▸a musical setting of this.
Derivative
- passional adj. (literary).
- passionless adj.
Etymology
ME: from OFr., from late L. passio(n-), from L. pass-, pati ‘suffer’.