heart and soul
With full devotion
Heart and soul means with complete devotion and energy—holding nothing back: She threw herself into the project heart and soul.
The phrase combines the emotional center (heart) with the spiritual essence (soul) to suggest total commitment of one's whole being.
As a noun phrase, someone's heart and soul is whatever they care about most deeply: That restaurant is her heart and soul.
Central essential portion
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
- cruxMost important point
- beingExisting as something
substance · foundation · bedrock · kernel · gist · nucleus · pith · fundamental
Firm pledge to act
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- passionIntense emotional drive
- wholeheartedFully and sincerely committed
- fervorIntense emotional intensity
ardor · zeal · earnestness · sincerity · intensity · enthusiasm · love · steadfastness
Total mental life
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- identityWho someone is
- selfhoodIndividual identity, personhood
- animaInner personality essence
ego · mind · innermost · intuition · awareness · subconscious · depth · soulfulness
core
Central essential portion
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
- quintessencePurest embodiment of something
- cruxMost important point
being · substance · foundation · bedrock · kernel · gist · nucleus · pith · fundamental · cornerstone
commitment
Firm pledge to act
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- passionIntense emotional drive
- wholeheartedFully and sincerely committed
fervor · ardor · zeal · earnestness · sincerity · intensity · enthusiasm · love · steadfastness · loyalty
psyche
Total mental life
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- identityWho someone is
- selfhoodIndividual identity, personhood
anima · ego · mind · innermost · intuition · awareness · subconscious · depth · soulfulness · spirituality
- body idiomsheartstrings, gut feeling, gut instinct, backbone, hard head
- perseverancepersist, never give up, tenacity, hang in there, endurance
heart and soulhalf-heartedly
With little genuine effort
halfheartedly · perfunctorily · superficially · cursorily · minimally
heart and soulindifferently
Without preference or concern
apathetically · unenthusiastically · spiritlessly · dispassionately · nonchalantly
heart and souldiffidently
With self-doubt
hesitantly · tentatively · reluctantly · unenthusiastically · tepidly
heart, soul, hearty, hearts, hearten, hearth, heartsick, disheartened, dishearten