Noun

Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.

We share a passion for books.

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Fervor, determination.

An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

It started as a hobby, but now my motorbike collection has become my passion .

sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional

We shared a night of passion .

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.

a cardiac passion

* Wyclif Bible (Rom. viii. 18)

the passions of this time

(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; opposed to action .

* John Locke

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.

(obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

* Francis Bacon

mouldable and not mouldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter

(obsolete) An innate quality, property, or attribute of a thing.

to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle. (rfex)

(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

(Shakespeare)

Noun

(obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.

* Francis Bacon

In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.

* Bible, Proverbs xxvi. 12

a man wise in his own conceit

The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.

a man of quick conceit

* Sir Philip Sidney

How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

* Shakespeare

His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.

(obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.

* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :

By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte .

(countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.

* L'Estrange

On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit .

* Alexander Pope

Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.

* Dryden

Tasso is full of conceits which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.

(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.

(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.

* Cotton

Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.

Design; pattern.

(Shakespeare)