Intensity vs. Passion — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Intensity and Passion
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Definitions
Intensity
Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force.
Passion
Strong and barely controllable emotion
A man of impetuous passion
Intensity
(Physics) The amount or degree of strength of electricity, light, heat, or sound per unit area or volume.
Passion
The suffering and death of Jesus
Meditations on the Passion of Christ
Intensity
The strength of a color, especially the degree to which it lacks its complementary color.
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Passion
Strong or powerful emotion
A crime of passion.
Intensity
See saturation.
Passion
A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy
A spirit governed by intense passions.
Intensity
The quality of being intense.
Passion
A state of strong sexual desire or love
"His desire flared into a passion he could no longer check" (Barbara Taylor Bradford).
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Intensity
The degree of strength.
Passion
The object of such desire or love
She became his passion.
Intensity
(physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
Passion
Boundless enthusiasm
His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
Intensity
(optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
Passion
The object of such enthusiasm
Soccer is her passion.
Intensity
(astronomy) radiance.
Passion
An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger
He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
Intensity
(geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.
Passion
The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
Intensity
The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
If you would deepen the intensity of light, you must be content to bring into deeper blackness and more distinct and definite outline the shade that accompanies it.
Passion
A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.
Intensity
The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced.
Passion
Martyrdom
The passion of Saint Margaret.
Intensity
The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch.
Passion
A true desire sustained or prolonged.
Intensity
The degree or depth of color or shade in a picture.
Passion
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
We share a passion for books.
Intensity
The amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation);
He adjusted the intensity of the sound
They measured the station's signal strength
Passion
Fervor, determination.
Intensity
High level or degree; the property of being intense
Passion
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.
Intensity
The magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
The kids played their music at full volume
Passion
Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
We shared a night of passion.
Intensity
Chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vividness of hue
Passion
The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
Passion
A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
Passion
(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.
A cardiac passion
Passion
(obsolete) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition
Passion
(obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Passion
(obsolete) An innate attribute, property, or quality of a thing.
[...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.
Passion
(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passion
(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passion
(transitive) To give a passionate character to.
Passion
A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs.
Passion
The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.
A body at rest affords us no idea of any active power to move, and, when set in motion, it is rather a passion than an action in it.
Passion
Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Moldable and not moldable, scissible and not scissible, and many other passions of matter.
Passion
The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
We also are men of like passions with you.
The nature of the human mind can not be sufficiently understood, without considering the affections and passions, or those modifications or actions of the mind consequent upon the apprehension of certain objects or events in which the mind generally conceives good or evil.
The term passion, and its adverb passionately, often express a very strong predilection for any pursuit, or object of taste - a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything.
The bravery of his grief did put meInto a towering passion.
The ruling passion, be it what it will,The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Who walked in every path of human life,Felt every passion.
When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest, they can have no passion for the glory of their country.
Passion
Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passion
Passion week. See Passion week, below.
Passion
To give a passionate character to.
Passion
To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passion
Strong feeling or emotion
Passion
Intense passion or emotion
Passion
Something that is desired intensely;
His rage for fame destroyed him
Passion
An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action
Passion
A feeling of strong sexual desire
Passion
Any object of warm affection or devotion;
The theater was her first love
He has a passion for cock fighting
Passion
The suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion
