Powerful, intense emotion

• fire

  1. A rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance:
  2. A specific instance of this change that destroys something:
  3. A burning fuel:

  • Go to Dictionary
• fervor

  1. Great warmth and intensity of emotion.
  2. Intense heat.

  • Go to Dictionary
• fervency

  1. The condition or quality of being fervent.

  • Go to Dictionary
• ardor

  1. Intensity of emotion, especially strong desire, enthusiasm, or devotion.

  • Go to Dictionary

The passionate affection and desire felt by lovers for each other

• romance

  1. A love affair:
  2. Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love:
  3. A strong, sometimes short-lived attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm for something:

  • Go to Dictionary
• love

  1. A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.
  2. A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.
  3. A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.

  • Go to Dictionary
• fancy

  1. Highly decorated:
  2. Complex or intricate:
  3. Elegantly fashionable or sophisticated:

  • Go to Dictionary
• amorousness

  1. The state or quality of being amorous.

  • Go to Dictionary

Sexual hunger

• pruriency

  1. prurience

  • Go to Dictionary
• prurience

  1. The quality of being prurient.

  • Go to Dictionary
• lustfulness

  1. libidinousness, the state of being lustful

  • Go to Dictionary
• lust

  1. Intense sexual desire.
  2. An overwhelming desire or craving:
  3. Intense eagerness or enthusiasm:

  • Go to Dictionary
• libidinousness

  1. lechery, lustfulness, the state of being libidinous

  • Go to Dictionary
• itch

  1. An irritating skin sensation causing a desire to scratch.
  2. Any of various skin disorders, such as scabies, marked by intense irritation and itching.
  3. A restless desire or craving for something:

  • Go to Dictionary
• erotism

  1. Eroticism.

  • Go to Dictionary
• eroticism

  1. The quality of being erotic or being represented as erotic.

  • Go to Dictionary
• desire

  1. To wish or long for; want:
  2. To want to have sex with (another person).
  3. To express a wish for; request.

  • Go to Dictionary
• concupiscence

  1. A strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust.

  • Go to Dictionary
• amativeness

  1. (phrenology) The state or quality of being amative; propensity to love or sexual feelings.

  • Go to Dictionary

A strong, enthusiastic liking for something

• romance

  1. A love affair:
  2. Ardent emotional attachment or involvement between people; love:
  3. A strong, sometimes short-lived attachment, fascination, or enthusiasm for something:

  • Go to Dictionary
• love affair

  1. An intimate sexual relationship or episode between lovers.
  2. A strong enthusiasm:

  • Go to Dictionary
• love

  1. A strong feeling of affection and concern toward another person, as that arising from kinship or close friendship.
  2. A strong feeling of affection and concern for another person accompanied by sexual attraction.
  3. A feeling of devotion or adoration toward God or a god.

  • Go to Dictionary

Passionate devotion to or interest in a cause or subject, for example

• zealousness

  1. The quality of being zealous; zeal.

  • Go to Dictionary
• zeal

  1. Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal.

  • Go to Dictionary
• fire

  1. A rapid, persistent chemical change that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame, especially the exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance:
  2. A specific instance of this change that destroys something:
  3. A burning fuel:

  • Go to Dictionary
• fervor

  1. Great warmth and intensity of emotion.
  2. Intense heat.

  • Go to Dictionary
• enthusiasm

  1. Great excitement for or interest in a subject or cause.
  2. A source or cause of great excitement or interest.
  3. Ecstasy arising from supposed possession by a god.

  • Go to Dictionary
• ardor

  1. Intensity of emotion, especially strong desire, enthusiasm, or devotion.

  • Go to Dictionary

A subject or activity that inspires lively interest

• rage

  1. Violent, explosive anger.
  2. A fit of anger.
  3. Furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.

  • Go to Dictionary
• mania

  1. An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire:
  2. A manifestation of bipolar disorder, marked usually by high energy, racing thoughts, irritability, and rapid speech.

  • Go to Dictionary
• enthusiasm

  1. Great excitement for or interest in a subject or cause.
  2. A source or cause of great excitement or interest.
  3. Ecstasy arising from supposed possession by a god.

  • Go to Dictionary
• craze

  1. To cause to become mentally deranged or obsessed.
  2. To produce a network of fine cracks in the surface or glaze of.
  3. To become mentally deranged or obsessed.

  • Go to Dictionary

An angry outburst

• conniption fit

  1. Anger or panic expressed verbally loudly and with overt bodily gestures.

  • Go to Dictionary
• conniption

  1. A fit of violent emotion, such as anger or panic.

  • Go to Dictionary
• temper

  1. To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate:
  2. To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by blending, admixing, or kneading:
  3. To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling.

  • Go to Dictionary
• tantrum

  1. A fit of bad temper.

  • Go to Dictionary
• huff

  1. A fit of anger or annoyance; a pique:
  2. To puff; blow.
  3. To make noisy, empty threats; bluster.

  • Go to Dictionary
• fit

  1. To be the proper size and shape for:
  2. To cause to be the proper size and shape:
  3. To measure for proper size:

  • Go to Dictionary

Sexual desire

• sexual excitement

  • Go to Dictionary
• concupiscence

  1. A strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust.

  • Go to Dictionary
• amorousness

  1. The state or quality of being amorous.

  • Go to Dictionary
• appetite

  1. An instinctive physical desire, especially one for food or drink.
  2. A strong wish or urge:
  3. A collective demand:

  • Go to Dictionary
• craving

  1. A consuming desire; a yearning.

  • Go to Dictionary
• lust

  1. Intense sexual desire.
  2. An overwhelming desire or craving:
  3. Intense eagerness or enthusiasm:

  • Go to Dictionary

Strong emotion

• intensity

  1. Exceptionally great concentration, power, or force.
  2. The amount or degree of strength of electricity, light, heat, or sound per unit area or volume.
  3. The strength of a color, especially the degree to which it lacks its complementary color.

  • Go to Dictionary
• outburst

  1. A sudden, violent display, as of activity or emotion:

  • Go to Dictionary
• ardor

  1. Intensity of emotion, especially strong desire, enthusiasm, or devotion.

  • Go to Dictionary
• feeling

  1. The sense of touch:
  2. A sensation experienced through this sense:
  3. A physical sensation other than one experienced though touch:

  • Go to Dictionary
• emotion

  1. A mental state that arises spontaneously rather than through conscious effort and is often accompanied by physiological changes; a feeling:
  2. Such mental states or the qualities that are associated with them, especially in contrast to reason:

  • Go to Dictionary