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’.