■ noun
1》 strong and barely controllable emotion.
↘an outburst of such emotion.
2》 intense sexual love.
3》 an intense enthusiasm for something.
4》 ( the Passion ) the suffering and death of Jesus.
↘a musical setting of this.
Derivatives
~al adjective ( literary ).
~less adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr., from late L. passio(n-) , from L. pass- , pati 'suffer'.