passion
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a strong feeling or emotion
Types & categories
- feeling hypernym
- infatuation hyponym
- wildness hyponym
- fervor hyponym
- storminess hyponym
Related & opposite
- passionate derivation
Sense 2 noun
the trait of being intensely emotional
Types & categories
- emotionality hypernym
- fieriness hyponym
Related & opposite
- fire up derivation
Sense 3 noun
something that is desired intensely
his rage for fame destroyed him
Types & categories
- desire hypernym
Sense 4 noun
an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Types & categories
- irrational motive hypernym
- agromania hyponym
- dipsomania hyponym
- egomania hyponym
- kleptomania hyponym
- logorrhea hyponym
- monomania hyponym
- necrophilia hyponym
- phaneromania hyponym
- pyromania hyponym
- trichotillomania hyponym
Related & opposite
- frenzied derivation
Sense 5 noun
a feeling of strong sexual desire
Types & categories
- sexual desire hypernym
Sense 6 noun
any object of warm affection or devotion
the theater was her first love
Types & categories
- object hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | passionate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | feeling |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | infatuation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wildness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | fervor |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | storminess |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fire up |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | emotionality |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | fieriness |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | desire |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | frenzied |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | irrational motive |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | agromania |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | dipsomania |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | egomania |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | kleptomania |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | logorrhea |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | monomania |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | necrophilia |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | phaneromania |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | pyromania |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | trichotillomania |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | sexual desire |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | love |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | love |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | love |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | object |