Joy vs Passion - What's the difference?
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A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.
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* Bible, 1 Thess. ii. 20
* Keats
(obsolete) The sign or exhibition of joy; gaiety; merriment; festivity.
* Spenser
* Dryden
To feel joy, to rejoice.
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*:for oftymes or this oure lord shewed hym vnto good men and vnto good knyghtes in lykenes of an herte But I suppose from hens forth ye shalle see no more / and thenne they Ioyed moche / and dwelled ther alle that day / And vpon the morowe whan they had herde masse / they departed and commaunded the good man to god
*1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18:
*:I swore readily enough to this and he joyed with exceeding joy and embraced me round the neck while love for him possessed my whole heart.
(archaic) To enjoy.
*1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.2:
*:For from the time that Scudamour her bought, / In perilous fight, she neuer ioyed day.
*Milton
*:Who might have lived and joyed immortal bliss.
(obsolete) To give joy to; to congratulate.
*Dryden
*:Joy us of our conquest.
*Prior
*:To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe.
(obsolete) To gladden; to make joyful; to exhilarate.
*Shakespeare
*:Neither pleasure's art can joy my spirits.
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.
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Fervor, determination.
An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.
sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
* Wyclif Bible (Rom. viii. 18)
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; opposed to action .
* John Locke
(obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
* Shakespeare
To give a passionate character to.
As a proper noun joy
is .As a noun passion is
(fervor) passion.joy
English
(wikipedia joy)Noun
- a child's joy on Christmas morning
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- Ye are our glory and joy .
- A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
- Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.
- The roofs with joy resound.
Antonyms
* (feeling of happiness) infelicity, joylessness, unhappiness, unjoyDerived terms
* bundle of joy * cocky's joy * enjoy * joyance * joyful * joygasm * joyless * joyous * joy ride * joystick * jump for joy * killjoy * no joy * overjoy * traveller's joy * unjoyVerb
(en verb)Statistics
*passion
English
Noun
- We share a passion for books.
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- It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion .
- We shared a night of passion .
- a cardiac passion
- the passions of this time
- A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set is motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.
- mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter
- to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle. (rfex)
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* ardor, fire in the belly, zealDerived terms
* passionflower * passion fruit, passionfruit * Passion Sunday * pash * passion popVerb
(en verb)- Dumbly she passions , frantically she doteth.
- (Keats)