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Fascination vs Passionate - What's the difference?

fascination | passionate |

As nouns the difference between fascination and passionate

is that fascination is the act of fascinating, bewitching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence while passionate is a passionate individual.

As an adjective passionate is

given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.

As a verb passionate is

(obsolete) to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.

fascination

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of fascinating, bewitching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.
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  • *:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.
  • The state or condition of being fascinated.
  • That which fascinates; a charm; a spell.

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    passionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.
  • Fired with intense feeling; ardent, blazing, burning.
  • * Prior
    • Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate .
  • (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
  • * 1596 , , II. i. 544:
    • She is sad and passionate at your highness' tent.
  • * 1599 , , I. ii. 124:
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * passion * passive * passivity * patience * patient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A passionate individual.

    • Verb

    (passionat)
  • (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].
  • (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
  • * 1607 , , III. ii. 6:
    • Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

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