ardour
Intense emotional heat
Ardour is the British spelling of ardor—intense enthusiasm, passion, or zeal.
The word suggests heat, whether literal or emotional: the ardour of first love, revolutionary ardour.
It implies not just interest but fervent commitment: She pursued her studies with ardour.
Forceful emotional passion
- vigorActive physical strength
- energyPower to do work
- forceStrength or compulsion
- powerEnergy transfer rate
dynamism · fierceness · fury · ferocity · fire · burning · blaze · heat
Intense eager enjoyment
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
- eagernessIntense willingness to act
devotion · determination · drive · earnestness · diligence · tenacity · perseverance · single-mindedness
vehemence
Forceful emotional passion
power · dynamism · fierceness · fury · ferocity · fire · burning · blaze · heat · fervency
enthusiasm
Intense eager enjoyment
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- commitmentFirm pledge to act
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
eagerness · devotion · determination · drive · earnestness · diligence · tenacity · perseverance · single-mindedness · purposefulness
romance
Love and its excitement
- desireIntense wanting
- loveIntense fond attachment
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
lust · amour · affection · yearning · longing · adoration · attachment · crush · fondness · enchantment
ardourindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · coldness · detachment · dispassion · impassivity
ardourcoolness
Calm self-possession
coldness · frigidity · iciness · chilliness · frostiness
ardourapathy
Absence of feeling
indifference · boredom · listlessness · ennui · neutrality