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Passion and desire go hand in hand, especially as a motivation. Linstead & Brewis refer to Merriam-Webster to say that passion is an "intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction". This suggests that passion is a very intense emotion, but can be positive or negative. Negatively, it may be unpleasant at times.
Anglomania – England and a passion or obsession with the English (i.e. anglophile) See also anglophobia. Arithmomania, arithmomania – numbers and counting (arithmo- (Greek) meaning number) Ablutomania - Mania for washing oneself; Agromania - Intense desire to be in open spaces; Anthomania - Obsession with flowers
Passion, (in Italian, Fosca), 1869 novel by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti; Passion Play or Passion, 1981 play by Peter Nichols; Passion: An Essay on Personality, 1984 book by Roberto Unger; The Passion, 1987 novel by Jeanette Winterson; Passion, 2004 Japanese yaoi manga series; Passion, 2011 young adult fantasy novel by Lauren Kate
Passionate love is linked to passion, as in intense emotion, for example, joy and fulfillment, but also anguish and agony. [16] Hatfield notes that the original meaning of passion "was agony—as in Christ's passion." [16] In contemporary literature, the original components of passionate love are seen to some degree as being a mixture of things.
Ishq (Arabic: عشق, romanized: ʿishq) is an Arabic word meaning 'love' or 'passion', [1] also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent. The word ishq does not appear in the central religious text of Islam, the Quran , which instead uses derivatives of the verbal root habba ( حَبَّ ), such as the ...
Remote workers have ‘absolutely no attachment, no passion, no creativity,’ scoffs L’Oréal CEO Nicolas Hieronimus. Orianna Rosa Royle. January 19, 2024 at 6:25 AM.
Failure to reason correctly brings about the occurrence of pathē—a word translated as passions, emotions, or affections. [3] [4] The Greek word pathos was a wide-ranging term indicating an infliction one suffers. [3] The Stoics used the word to discuss generic emotions such as anger, fear and joy. [3]
The principle of these is that passions, as is suggested by the word’s etymology, are by nature suffered and endured, and are therefore the result of an external cause acting upon a subject. [4] In contrast, modern psychology considers emotions to be a sensation which occurs inside a subject and therefore is produced by the subject themselves.