Anger vs. Passion — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anger and Passion
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Anger
Anger, also known as wrath or rage, is an intense emotional state involving a strong uncomfortable and non-cooperative response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat.A person experiencing anger will often experience physical effects, such as increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure, and increased levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as an emotion which triggers part of the fight or flight response.
Passion
Strong and barely controllable emotion
A man of impetuous passion
Anger
A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility
The colonel's anger at his daughter's disobedience
Passion
The suffering and death of Jesus
Meditations on the Passion of Christ
Anger
Fill (someone) with anger; provoke anger in
He was angered that he had not been told
She was angered by his terse answer
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Passion
Strong or powerful emotion
A crime of passion.
Anger
A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.
Passion
A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy
A spirit governed by intense passions.
Anger
To make angry; enrage or provoke.
Passion
A state of strong sexual desire or love
"His desire flared into a passion he could no longer check" (Barbara Taylor Bradford).
Anger
To become angry
She angers too quickly.
Passion
The object of such desire or love
She became his passion.
Anger
A strong feeling of displeasure, hostility or antagonism towards someone or something, usually combined with an urge to harm, often stemming from perceived provocation, hurt, or threat.
You need to control your anger.
Passion
Boundless enthusiasm
His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
Anger
(obsolete) Pain or stinging.
Passion
The object of such enthusiasm
Soccer is her passion.
Anger
(transitive) To cause such a feeling of antagonism in.
He who angers you conquers you.
Passion
An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger
He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
Anger
(intransitive) To become angry.
You anger too easily.
Passion
The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
Anger
Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
I made the experiment, setting the moxa where . . . the greatest anger and soreness still continued.
Passion
A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.
Anger
A strong passion or emotion of displeasure or antagonism, excited by a real or supposed injury or insult to one's self or others, or by the intent to do such injury.
Anger is likeA full hot horse, who being allowed his way,Self-mettle tires him.
Passion
Martyrdom
The passion of Saint Margaret.
Anger
To make painful; to cause to smart; to inflame.
He . . . angereth malign ulcers.
Passion
A true desire sustained or prolonged.
Anger
To excite to anger; to enrage; to provoke.
Taxes and impositions . . . which rather angered than grieved the people.
Passion
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
We share a passion for books.
Anger
A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
Passion
Fervor, determination.
Anger
The state of being angry
Passion
An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion.
Anger
Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Passion
Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
We shared a night of passion.
Anger
Make angry;
The news angered him
Passion
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
Anger
Become angry;
He angers easily
Passion
A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
Passion
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
A cardiac passion
Passion
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition
Passion
(obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Passion
(obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.
[...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.
Passion
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passion
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passion
(transitive) To give a passionate character to.
Passion
A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs.
Passion
The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.
A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.
Passion
Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter.
Passion
The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
We also are men of like passions with you.
The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently understood, without considering the affections and passions, or those modifications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil.
The term passion, and its adverb passionately, often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste - a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything.
The bravery of his grief did put meInto a towering passion.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Who walked in every path of human life,Felt every passion.
When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.
Passion
Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passion
Passion week. See Passion week, below.
Passion
To give a passionate character to.
Passion
To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passion
Strong feeling or emotion
Passion
Intense passion or emotion
Passion
Something that is desired intensely;
His rage for fame destroyed him
Passion
An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Passion
A feeling of strong sexual desire
Passion
Any object of warm affection or devotion;
The theater was her first love
He has a passion for cock fighting
Passion
The suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion
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