passionate
adjective
having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid.
passionateness
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a word derived from
passionate.
Example Sentences
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Now the poet fires this still vision with his own passionateness.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
Thus he won for himself, by virtue of the passionateness and partisanship of the young, a success which gradually reacted with advantage upon those of riper years.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In the fury, however, this passionateness finds its ugly expression.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
Verhaeren, who at this time greedily adopts all fashionable freakishness as something new, and struts about in fantastic apparel, promptly acquires notoriety by his vehement passionateness and his first literary attempts.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
But Ravel is full of a lyricism, a piercingness, a passionateness, that much of the music of Debussy successive to "Pelléas" wants.
From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld
