passionatenessn.
/ˈpaʃn̩ətnəs/, /ˈpaʃənətnəs/, U.S. /ˈpæʃ(ə)nətnəs/ The quality or condition of being passionate; susceptibility to passion; intensity of emotion; †susceptibility to anger, irascibility (obsolete).
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the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > quality or condition of being passionate
passionatenessa1582
impassionedness1876
passionfulness1922
a1582 J. Harington Wks. (1971) 110 For ficklenes hath faithfulnes faste lockte..and patientnes with passionatnes is yock'te.
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 6 To love even with some passionatenesse the Person you would Marry, is not onely allowable but expedient.
1743 H. Fielding Wedding Day iii. iv. 38 If I return, I know the Positiveness and Passionateness of his Temper too well.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick liv. 276 That strange forbearance and unwillingness to stir up the deeper passionateness in any already ireful being.
1884 J. Parker Apostolic Life III. 51 This man concerns himself burningly, and with passionateness and fanaticism, respecting things that are not of the earth and of time.
1905 Daily Chron. 17 May 3/3 The troubadourish, unworldly, exquisite passionateness of it all.
1955 Amer. Hist. Rev. 60 908 In spite of the enormous documentation of the circumstantial evidence and the passionateness of the arguments, the American people will be slow in accepting this drastic rewriting of their supreme law.
1993 Women's Art Mar.–Apr. (BNC) 7 Miss O'Keeffe's pictures embody intelligent passionateness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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