[plural] [noun]Passions are very powerful feelings.Touch a man's property and his passions are immediately aroused.Three newspapers which had allegedly inflamed racial passions (= caused more hate between racial groups) were banned.If you say passions are running high you mean that people are feeling strong emotions about a particular subject at a particular time.Passions run very high at election time.
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Meaning of PASSIONS in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012