Suffering vs. Passion — What's the Difference?

Suffering, or pain in a broad sense, may be an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with the perception of harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.

Strong and barely controllable emotion

The state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship

The suffering and death of Jesus

The condition of one who suffers; the bearing of pain or distress.

Strong or powerful emotion

An instance of pain or distress.

A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy

Experiencing pain; characterized by suffering.

A state of strong sexual desire or love

The condition of someone who suffers; a state of pain or distress.

The object of such desire or love

Present participle of suffer

Boundless enthusiasm

The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.

The object of such enthusiasm

Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger

A state of acute pain

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

Misery resulting from affliction

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

Psychological suffering;

Martyrdom

Feelings of mental or physical pain

A true desire sustained or prolonged.

Troubled by pain or loss;

Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.

Very unhappy; full of misery;

Fervor, determination.

An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.

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

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

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

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

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

(obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.

(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

(transitive) To give a passionate character to.

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.

The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.

Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

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.

Disorder of the mind; madness.

Passion week. See Passion week, below.

To give a passionate character to.

To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

Strong feeling or emotion

Intense passion or emotion

Something that is desired intensely;

An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

A feeling of strong sexual desire

Any object of warm affection or devotion;

The suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion