Fashion vs. Passion — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fashion and Passion
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Fashion
Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. In its everyday use, the term implies a look defined by the fashion industry as that which is trending.
Passion
Strong and barely controllable emotion
A man of impetuous passion
Fashion
The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior
Out of fashion.
Passion
The suffering and death of Jesus
Meditations on the Passion of Christ
Fashion
Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode
A swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
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Passion
Strong or powerful emotion
A crime of passion.
Fashion
Manner or mode; way
Set the table in this fashion.
Passion
A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy
A spirit governed by intense passions.
Fashion
A personal, often idiosyncratic manner
Played the violin in his own curious fashion.
Passion
A state of strong sexual desire or love
"His desire flared into a passion he could no longer check" (Barbara Taylor Bradford).
Fashion
Kind or variety; sort
People of all fashions.
Passion
The object of such desire or love
She became his passion.
Fashion
Shape or form; configuration
A garden triangular in fashion.
Passion
Boundless enthusiasm
His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
Fashion
To give shape or form to; make
Fashioned a table from a redwood burl.
Passion
The object of such enthusiasm
Soccer is her passion.
Fashion
To train or influence into a particular state or character
The teacher fashions her students into fine singers.
Passion
An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger
He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
Fashion
(Archaic) To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion.
Passion
The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
Fashion
(Obsolete) To contrive.
Passion
A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.
Fashion
(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
Passion
Martyrdom
The passion of Saint Margaret.
Fashion
(uncountable) Popular trends.
Check out the latest in fashion.
Passion
A true desire sustained or prolonged.
Fashion
(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
Passion
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
We share a passion for books.
Fashion
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
The fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
Passion
Fervor, determination.
Fashion
(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
Men of fashion
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.
Fashion
To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
Passion
Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
We shared a night of passion.
Fashion
(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
Passion
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
Fashion
(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
Passion
A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
Fashion
(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
Passion
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
A cardiac passion
Fashion
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.
The fashion of his countenance was altered.
I do not like the fashion of your garments.
Passion
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition
Fashion
The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
The innocent diversions in fashion.
As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
Passion
(obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Fashion
Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
Passion
(obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.
[...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.
Fashion
Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
Passion
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
Fashion
To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
Here the loud hammer fashions female toys.
Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age.
Passion
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Fashion
To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; - with to.
Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
Passion
(transitive) To give a passionate character to.
Fashion
To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
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.
Fashion
To forge or counterfeit.
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.
Fashion
How something is done or how it happens;
Her dignified manner
His rapid manner of talking
Their nomadic mode of existence
In the characteristic New York style
A lonely way of life
In an abrasive fashion
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.
Fashion
Characteristic or habitual practice
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.
Fashion
The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
Passion
Disorder of the mind; madness.
Fashion
Make out of components (often in an improvising manner);
She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks
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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