passion

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
passion/ˈpaʃn/

▶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
passional adjective (literary),
passionless adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr., from late L. passio(n-), from L. pass-, pati ‘suffer’.