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Passion vs. Affection — What's the Difference?

Passion vs. Affection — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Passion and Affection

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Passion

Strong and barely controllable emotion
A man of impetuous passion

Affection

Affection or fondness is a "disposition or state of mind or body" that is often associated with a feeling or type of love. It has given rise to a number of branches of philosophy and psychology concerning emotion, disease, influence, and state of being.

Passion

The suffering and death of Jesus
Meditations on the Passion of Christ

Affection

A gentle feeling of fondness or liking
He won a place in her affections
She felt affection for the wise old lady

Passion

Strong or powerful emotion
A crime of passion.
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Affection

The action or process of affecting or being affected.

Passion

A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy
A spirit governed by intense passions.

Affection

A tender feeling toward another; fondness.

Passion

A state of strong sexual desire or love
"His desire flared into a passion he could no longer check" (Barbara Taylor Bradford).

Affection

Often affections Feeling or emotion
An unbalanced state of affections.

Passion

The object of such desire or love
She became his passion.

Affection

A disposition to feel, do, or say; a propensity.

Passion

Boundless enthusiasm
His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.

Affection

(Obsolete) Prejudice; partiality.

Passion

The object of such enthusiasm
Soccer is her passion.

Affection

The act of affecting or acting upon.

Passion

An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger
He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.

Affection

The state of being affected, especially: a change in, or alteration of, the emotional state of a person or other animal, caused by a subjective affect (a subjective feeling or emotion), which arises in response to a stimulus which may result from either thought or perception.

Passion

The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.

Affection

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition.

Passion

A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.

Affection

An emotion; a feeling or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind.

Passion

Martyrdom
The passion of Saint Margaret.

Affection

A feeling of love or strong attachment.
I have a lot of affection for my little sister.
The marriage therapist suggested they show each other more affection.

Passion

A true desire sustained or prolonged.

Affection

A disease; a morbid symptom; a malady.

Passion

Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
We share a passion for books.

Affection

To feel affection for.

Passion

Fervor, determination.

Affection

The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.

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.

Affection

An attribute; a quality or property; a condition; a bodily state; as, figure, weight, etc. , are affections of bodies.
And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less,An old and strange affection of the house.

Passion

Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
We shared a night of passion.

Affection

Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency.
Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality.

Passion

The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.

Affection

A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; - often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children.
All his affections are set on his own country.

Passion

A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.

Affection

Prejudice; bias.

Passion

(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
A cardiac passion

Affection

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection.

Passion

(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition

Affection

The lively representation of any emotion.

Passion

(obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

Affection

Affectation.

Passion

(obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.
[...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.

Affection

Passion; violent emotion.
Most wretched man,That to affections does the bridle lend.

Passion

(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

Affection

A positive feeling of liking;
He had trouble expressing the affection he felt
The child won everyone's heart

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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