Career vs. Passion — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Career and Passion
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Career
The career is an individual's metaphorical "journey" through learning, work and other aspects of life. There are a number of ways to define career and the term is used in a variety of ways.
Passion
Strong and barely controllable emotion
A man of impetuous passion
Career
An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress
He seemed destined for a career as an engineer like his father
Passion
The suffering and death of Jesus
Meditations on the Passion of Christ
Career
Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way
The coach careered across the road and went through a hedge
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Passion
Strong or powerful emotion
A crime of passion.
Career
A chosen pursuit; a profession or occupation.
Passion
A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy
A spirit governed by intense passions.
Career
The general course or progression of one's working life or one's professional achievements
An officer with a distinguished career.
A teacher in the midst of a long career.
Passion
A state of strong sexual desire or love
"His desire flared into a passion he could no longer check" (Barbara Taylor Bradford).
Career
A path or course, as of the sun through the heavens.
Passion
The object of such desire or love
She became his passion.
Career
Speed
"My hasting days fly on with full career" (John Milton).
Passion
Boundless enthusiasm
His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
Career
Doing what one does as a permanent occupation or lifework
Career diplomats.
A career criminal.
Passion
The object of such enthusiasm
Soccer is her passion.
Career
To move forward at high speed, often with minimal control
"that lordly car ... How smoothly it ran. In what style they had come careering along the country roads!" (James Joyce).
Passion
An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger
He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
Career
One's calling in life; a person's occupation; one's profession.
Passion
The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
Career
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part of it.
Washington's career as a soldier
Passion
A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.
Career
(archaic) Speed.
Passion
Martyrdom
The passion of Saint Margaret.
Career
A jouster's path during a joust.
Passion
A true desire sustained or prolonged.
Career
(obsolete) A short gallop of a horse.
Passion
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
We share a passion for books.
Career
(falconry) The flight of a hawk.
Passion
Fervor, determination.
Career
(obsolete) A racecourse; the ground run over.
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.
Career
To move rapidly straight ahead, especially in an uncontrolled way.
The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge.
Passion
Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
We shared a night of passion.
Career
Synonym of serial
A career criminal
Passion
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
Career
A race course: the ground run over.
To go back again the same career.
Passion
A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
Career
A running; full speed; a rapid course.
When a horse is running in his full career.
Passion
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
A cardiac passion
Career
General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier.
An impartial view of his whole career.
Passion
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition
Career
The flight of a hawk.
Passion
(obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Career
To move or run rapidly.
Careering gayly over the curling waves.
Passion
(obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.
[...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.
Career
The particular occupation for which you are trained
Passion
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
Career
The general progression of your working or professional life;
The general had had a distinguished career
He had a long career in the law
Passion
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Career
Move headlong at high speed;
The cars careered down the road
The mob careered through the streets
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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