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Fervent vs Passionate - What's the difference?

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Passionate is a synonym of fervent.



As adjectives the difference between fervent and passionate

is that fervent is exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief while passionate is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual.

As a noun passionate is

a passionate individual.

As a verb passionate is

to fill with passion, or with another given emotion.

fervent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, or belief.
  • * 1819 , , Mathilda , ch. 3:
    • As I returned my fervent hopes were dashed by so many fears.
  • Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, or passion.
  • * 1876 , , "Mr. Captain and the Nymph," in Little Novels ,
    • Never again would those fresh lips touch his lips with their fervent kiss!
  • Glowing, burning, very hot.
  • * 1611 , :
    • But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

    Derived terms

    * fervently

    Related terms

    * fever * ferment * fervid * fervor

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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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