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Passionate vs Focused - What's the difference?

passionate | focused |

As adjectives the difference between passionate and focused

is that passionate is given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic and/or sexual while focused is centered or concentrated.

As verbs the difference between passionate and focused

is that passionate is (obsolete) to fill with passion, or with another given emotion while focused is (focus).

As a noun passionate

is a passionate individual.

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.

    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.

    focused

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (UK ) focussed

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • centered or concentrated.
  • Antonyms

    * unfocused

    Verb

    (head)
  • (focus)
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