passional
Driven by feeling
Passional means relating to or marked by intense emotion or passion.
The word appears most often in religious or philosophical contexts, describing states driven by strong feeling rather than reason: passional devotion, passional intensity.
A passional is also a book containing accounts of saints' sufferings and martyrdoms.
Intense fond attachment
- amourRomantic liaison, often illicit
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
- desireIntense wanting
attraction · chemistry · courtship · devotion · beloved · lover · paramour · tryst
Intense wanting
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- cravingPowerful urge to have
- lustIntense carnal appetite
infatuation · obsession · burning · pining · hunger · thirst · ache · rapture
Intensely and sincerely felt
- devotedLoyally and lovingly attached
- fanaticalExtremely and uncritically devoted
- vehementIntensely forceful in feeling
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
intense · wholehearted · single-minded · unwavering · uncompromising · militant · crusading · evangelical
love
Intense fond attachment
- amourRomantic liaison, often illicit
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- intimacyEmotional closeness between people
desire · attraction · chemistry · courtship · devotion · beloved · lover · paramour · tryst · embrace
desire
Intense wanting
lust · infatuation · obsession · burning · pining · hunger · thirst · ache · rapture · ecstasy
fervent
Intensely and sincerely felt
- devotedLoyally and lovingly attached
- fanaticalExtremely and uncritically devoted
- vehementIntensely forceful in feeling
fiery · intense · wholehearted · single-minded · unwavering · uncompromising · militant · crusading · evangelical · missionary
martyrdom
Suffering for conviction
- saintsCanonized religious figures
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
mystical · ecstatic · rapture · transcendent · spiritual · sacred · divine · piety · reverence · worship
feeling
Sensed inner state
empathy · love · hate · anger · joy · grief · sorrow · anguish · tenderness · vulnerability
passionaldispassionate
Free from emotional involvement
unemotional · emotionless · apathetic · cold · cool
passionaldetached
Apart or uninvolved
objective · impersonal · disinterested · clinical · analytical
passionalimpassive
Without visible emotion
stoic · reserved · undemonstrative · restrained · composed
- passion fruitTart tropical vine produce
- throes of passionIntense emotional or physical abandon
- passionate cryIntense vocal expression
- crime of passionImpulsive violent act from emotion
- passionate kissIntense romantic lip contact
- passion projectSelf-motivated creative undertaking
passion, passionate, compassion, compassionate, passions, impassioned, passionless, dispassionate, dispassion