PASSIONとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: păsh'ən, IPA^(key): /ˈpæʃən/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): [ˈpʰæʃən]
• 韻: -æʃən

名詞

passion (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 passions)

1. A true desire sustained or prolonged.
2. Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.

   We share a passion for books.

   • 2011 January 16, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 1 – 1 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 December 2019:

     That was partly because of a swirling wind that made precision passing difficult and also a derby atmosphere where the emphasis seemed to be on passion rather than football.

3. Fervor, determination.
4. 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.

5. Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.

   We shared a night of passion.

6. (Christianity, usually capitalized) The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.
   • 1543 June 8, Henry VIII of England, “The Nynthe Article. The Holy Catholike Churche.”, in A Necessary Doctrine and Erudicion for Any Chrysten Man, Set furth by the Kynges Maiestye of Englande, &c., imprinted at London:  […] by Thomas Berthelet, […], →OCLC:

     Moreouer the perfit beleue of this article, worketh in all true chriſten people, aloue to continue in this vnitie, and afeare to be caſte out of the ſame, and it worketh in them that be ſinners and repentant, great comforte, and conſolacion, to obteine remiſſion of ſinne, by vertue of Chriſtes paſſion, and adminiſtracion of his ſacramentes at the miniſters handes, ordained for that purpoſe, [...]

7. A display, musical composition, or play meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.
8. (obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.

   a cardiac passion

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

   Antonym: action

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “Of Power”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book II, § 3, page 116:

     A Body at reſt affords us no Idea of any active Power to move; and when it is ſet is motion its ſelf, that Motion is rather a Paſſion, than an Action in it: [...]

10. (obsolete) The capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
    • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century. [Experiment Solitary Touching Other Passions of Matter, and Characters of Bodies.]”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], paragraph 846, page 216, →OCLC:

      The Differences of Impreſsible and Not Impreſsible; Figurable and Not Figurable; Mouldable and Not Mouldable; Sciſsile and Not Sciſsile; And many other Paſsions of Matter, are Plebeian Notions, applied vnto the Inſtruments and Vſes which Men ordinarily practiſe; [...]

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

    [...] to obtain the knowledge of some passion of the circle.

12. (obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 142, column 1:

      The fit is momentary, vpon a thought / He will againe be well. If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not.

同意語

• (fervor, determination): ardor, fire in the belly, zeal

派生語

関連する語

動詞

passion (三人称単数 現在形 passions, 現在分詞 passioning, 過去形および過去分詞形 passioned)

1. (obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
   • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC; Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, →OCLC:

     Dumbly she passions, frantically she doteth.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     There did I ſee that low ſpirited Swaine, [...] hight Coſtard, (Clow[ne]. O mee) ſorted and conſorted contrary to thy eſtabliſhed proclaymed Edict and continent Cannon; Which with, o with, but with this I paſſion to ſay wherewith: / Clo[wne]. With a Wench.

   • 1820, John Keats, “(please specify the poem)”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

     she passioned
     To see herself escap'd from so sore ills

2. (transitive) To give a passionate character to.

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “passion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• Pasions, Spinosa, saposin

別の表記

• passio

語源

From Latin passio (“suffering”), noun of action from perfect passive participle passus (“suffered”), from deponent verb pati (“suffer”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑs.si͜un/

名詞

passion f (nominative 複数形 passione)

1. passion of Christ
   • ðaet Eghwilc messepriost gesinge fore Osuulfes sawle twa messan, twa fore Beornðryðe sawle; and aeghwilc diacon arede twa passione fore his sawle, twa for hire; ― that Every mass-priest recites for Oswulf's soul two masses, two for Beornthryth's soul; and every deacon reads two passions for his soul. (Oswulf's Charters, c805)

派生した語

• >? Middle English: passioun

参照

• John R. Clark Hall (1916), “passion”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “passion”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.