Passion vs. Conviction: What's the Difference?
Passion and Conviction Definitions
Passion
Strong or powerful emotion
A crime of passion.
Conviction
The judgment of a jury or judge that a person is guilty of a crime as charged.
Passion
A powerful emotion, such as anger or joy
A spirit governed by intense passions.
Conviction
The state of being found or proved guilty
Evidence that led to the suspect's conviction.
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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Conviction
The act or process of convincing.
Passion
The object of such desire or love
She became his passion.
Conviction
The state or appearance of being convinced
She spoke with real conviction on the matter.
Passion
Boundless enthusiasm
His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game.
Conviction
A fixed or strong belief.
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Passion
The object of such enthusiasm
Soccer is her passion.
Conviction
(countable) A firmly held belief.
Passion
An abandoned display of emotion, especially of anger
He's been known to fly into a passion without warning.
Conviction
(countable) A judgement of guilt in a court of law.
Passion
The sufferings of Jesus in the period following the Last Supper and including the Crucifixion, as related in the New Testament.
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Conviction
(uncountable) The state of being found or proved guilty.
Passion
A narrative, musical setting, or pictorial representation of Jesus's sufferings.
Conviction
(uncountable) The state of being wholly convinced.
Passion
Martyrdom
The passion of Saint Margaret.
Conviction
The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
The greater certainty of conviction and the greater certainty of punishment.
Passion
A true desire sustained or prolonged.
Conviction
A judgment of condemnation entered by a court having jurisdiction; the act or process of finding guilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal.
Conviction may accrue two ways.
Passion
Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or extreme hate.
We share a passion for books.
Conviction
The act of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth; confutation.
For all his tedious talk is but vain boast,Or subtle shifts conviction to evade.
Passion
Fervor, determination.
Conviction
The state of being convinced or convicted; strong persuasion or belief; especially, the state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience.
To call good evil, and evil good, against the conviction of their own consciences.
And did you presently fall under the power of this conviction?
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.
Conviction
An unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence
Passion
Sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional.
We shared a night of passion.
Conviction
(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed;
The conviction came as no surprise
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
