n. 25B6; noun
the passion of activists : FERVOUR, ardour, enthusiasm, eagerness, zeal, zealousness, vigour, fire, fieriness, energy, fervency, animation, spirit, spiritedness, fanaticism.
he worked himself up into a passion : (BLIND) RAGE, fit of anger/temper, temper, towering rage, tantrum, fury, frenzy; Brit. informal paddy.
hot with passion : LOVE, (sexual) desire, lust, ardour, infatuation, lasciviousness, lustfulness.
his passion for football : ENTHUSIASM, love, mania, fascination, obsession, fanaticism, fixation, compulsion, appetite, addiction; informal thing.
English literature is a passion with me : OBSESSION, preoccupation, craze, mania, hobby horse.
the Passion of Christ : CRUCIFIXION, suffering, agony, martyrdom.
apathy.