Fascinate vs Passionate - What's the difference?
fascinate | passionate |
To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
To be irresistibly charming or attractive to
Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
* Prior
(obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
* 1596 , , II. i. 544:
* 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
(obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
(obsolete) To express with great emotion.
* 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
As verbs the difference between fascinate and passionate
is that fascinate is to evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone while passionate is to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.As an adjective passionate is
given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.As a noun passionate is
a passionate individual.fascinate
English
Verb
(fascinat)- The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
- We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
- Her gait fascinates all men.
passionate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
- She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
- Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,
Synonyms
* (fired with intense feeling) ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid.Verb
(passionat)- Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
- Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.