Antonyms for passion
ˈpæʃ ənpas·sion

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1. passionnoun

   Fervor, determination.

   Synonyms:
   ardor, zeal, fire in the belly

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1. passion

   Displeasure is the mildest and most general word. Choler and ire, now rare except in poetic or highly rhetorical language, denote a still, and the latter a persistent, anger. Temper used alone in the sense of anger is colloquial, tho we may correctly say a hot temper, a fiery temper, etc. Passion, tho a word of far wider application, may, in the singular, be employed to denote anger; "did put me in a towering passion," Shakespeare Hamlet act v, sc. 2. Anger is violent and vindictive emotion, which is sharp, sudden, and, like all violent passions, necessarily brief. Resentment (a feeling back or feeling over again) is persistent, the bitter brooding over injuries. Exasperation, a roughening, is a hot, superficial intensity of anger, demanding instant expression. Rage drives one beyond the bounds of prudence or discretion; fury is stronger yet, and sweeps one away into uncontrollable violence. Anger is personal and usually selfish, aroused by real or supposed wrong to oneself, and directed specifically and intensely against the person who is viewed as blameworthy. Indignation is impersonal and unselfish displeasure at unworthy acts (Latin indigna), i. e., at wrong as wrong. Pure indignation is not followed by regret, and needs no repentance; it is also more self-controlled than anger. Anger is commonly a sin; indignation is often a duty. Wrath is deep and perhaps vengeful displeasure, as when the people of Nazareth were "filled with wrath" at the plain words of Jesus (Luke iv, 28); it may, however, simply express the culmination of righteous indignation without malice in a pure being; as, the wrath of God. Impatience, fretfulness, irritation, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, and vexation express the slighter forms of anger. Irritation, petulance, and vexation are temporary and for immediate cause. Fretfulness, pettishness, and peevishness are chronic states finding in any petty matter an occasion for their exercise. Compare ACRIMONY; ENMITY; HATRED.

   Antonyms:
   amiability, charity, forbearance, gentleness, leniency, lenity, long-suffering, love, mildness, patience, peace, peaceableness, peacefulness, self-control, self-restraint

   Synonyms:
   anger, animosity, choler, displeasure, exasperation, fretfulness, fury, impatience, indignation, ire, irritation, offense, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, rage, resentment, temper, vexation, wrath

   Preposition:
   Anger at the insult prompted the reply. Anger toward the offender exaggerates the offense.

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1. passion

   Antonyms:
   coolness, indifference, apathy, coldness, frigidity, iciness

   Synonyms:
   emotion, desire, ardor, vehemence, lust, auger, animation, excitement, warmth, feeling

Matched Categories

1. • Agony
   • Desire
   • Emotionality
   • Feeling
   • Irrational Motive
   • Sexual Desire

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. passion, passionatenessnoun

   a strong feeling or emotion

   Synonyms:
   love, mania, cacoethes, passionateness, warmth, rage, heat

2. heat, warmth, passionnoun

   the trait of being intensely emotional

   Synonyms:
   lovingness, rut, affectionateness, warmheartedness, high temperature, mania, cacoethes, heating, love, estrus, warmth, fondness, heat energy, oestrus, hotness, rage, warmness, passionateness, heating plant, heating system, heat

3. rage, passionnoun

   something that is desired intensely

   "his rage for fame destroyed him"

   Synonyms:
   cult, fury, heat, furore, craze, fad, mania, madness, cacoethes, love, passionateness, warmth, rage, furor

4. mania, passion, cacoethesnoun

   an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

   Synonyms:
   love, rage, manic disorder, cacoethes, mania, passionateness, warmth, heat

5. passionnoun

   a feeling of strong sexual desire

   Synonyms:
   heat, passionateness, rage, cacoethes, mania, warmth, love

6. love, passionnoun

   any object of warm affection or devotion

   "the theater was her first love"; "he has a passion for cock fighting";

   Synonyms:
   erotic love, mania, cacoethes, love life, beloved, love, passionateness, dearest, warmth, making love, rage, honey, lovemaking, sexual love, dear, heat

7. Passion, Passion of Christnoun

   the suffering of Jesus at the Crucifixion

   Synonyms:
   heat, passionateness, rage, cacoethes, mania, warmth, love

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1. passionnoun

   Synonyms:
   suffering, pain, agony, emotion, ardor, feeling, pathos, wrath, fury, anger, love, infatuation, transport

How to use passion in a sentence?

1. Roland Barthes:

   I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

2. Anthony D'Angelo:

   Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

3. Josh Baldwin:

   It does feel like we’re on edge, like something’s about to break and there’s about to be another big awakening, i feel like the younger generation – millennials – sometimes can get a bad rap, but the thing I love about it is that they are all-in on whatever they’re going for…and the ones that are going after the Lord they’re so passionate about it that I feel like that’s what changes our nation – their passion and their hunger.

4. Jane Lugi.Maria:

   They were very lovely, very enthusiastic, their plan was to work and to help other people less fortunate in the community. They were suffering of course but they were able to live and want to live. In spite of the bonding condition, they had passion for life.

5. Daniel Norris:

   Just saying thank Christopher Ilitch to Gardy. One of my favorite humans. I'm grateful for the joy, knowledge passion Christopher Ilitch shared with us every single day. Win or lose. -- whatever is above respect. Christopher Ilitch have it.

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