Passion vs Inspiration - What's the difference?
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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.
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To give a passionate character to.
(physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration.
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(countable) A breath, a single inhalation.
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A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.
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The act of an elevating]] or [[stimulate, stimulating influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity. In this sense, it is generally followed by the adposition to'' or ''for :
* She was waiting for inspiration to write a book.
* She was waiting for inspiration for writing a book.
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A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.
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A new idea, especially one which arises suddenly and is clever or creative.
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As nouns the difference between passion and inspiration
is that passion is any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate while inspiration is the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration.As a verb passion
is to suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.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.
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References
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Noun
An Elementary System of Physiology, p. 220:
- Laughing is produced by an inspiration succeeded by a succession of short imperfect expirations.
The History of the Variations of the Protestant ChurchesVol.2 (1829 translation), p. 355:
- The question, therefore, at issue is, not whether those external means be sufficient without grace and divine inspiration', for none pretends that": but, in order to hinder men from feigning or imagining an '''inspiration''', whether it has not been God's economy, and his usual conduct to make his ' inspiration walk hand in hand with certain means of fact, which men can neither feign in the air without being convicted of falsehood, nor imagine without illusion.
The Nation's Wail, p. 6:
- We caught the inspiration of his joy; and imagination painted a glorious future near at hand for our land, quickly to develop itself under the guidance of his fostering wisdom, and fraternal counsels and care.
Leonardo da Vinci: Origins of a Genius, p. 25:
- All this suggests that Andrea may, like the authors of the devotional panel, the fresco, and the print – and like Leonardo, as we shall see – have found his inspiration in Pollaiuolo.
- And now it is time for problem solving which, if successful, will create new ideas serving as an inspiration source for future research objects of the researcher in question as well as other researchers within the same field.
Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
- As for United, this was a performance lacking in inspiration , purpose and threat and once again underlined the urgency for transfer business to be done in the closing hours of the transfer window.
Presidential Radio Address:
- The people of Ukraine and Georgia are an inspiration to the world and I was pleased that this week NATO declared that Ukraine and Georgia will become members of NATO.
- After an interval the Psychologist had an inspiration . "It must have gone into the past if it has gone anywhere," he said.
- Mrs. Balfame had an inspiration . "My God!" she exclaimed, springing to her feet, "the murderer . . . was hidden in the cellar or attic all night, all the next day! He may be here yet!"
Scenery Chewer Plays It Straight, Methodically," New York Times (retrieved 3 Sept. 2013):
- [H]e accompanied her to a rehearsal of a skit satirizing “Casablanca,” and the director had an inspiration : Wouldn’t it be a laugh to cast a 10-year-old as Rick?