Interest vs. Passion

Interestnoun

The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.

Interestnoun

(uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.

Interestnoun

(uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.

Interestnoun

(countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.

Interestnoun

(countable) Something one is interested in.

Interestnoun

Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.

Interestnoun

(usually plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.

Interestverb

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.

Interestverb

To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.

Interestverb

(obsolete) To cause or permit to share.

Interestverb

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.

Interestverb

To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; - often used impersonally.

Interestverb

To cause or permit to share.

Interestnoun

Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern; a desire to learn more about a topic or engage often in an activity.

Interestnoun

Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.

Interestnoun

Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.

Interestnoun

A fee paid for the use of money; a fee paid for a loan; - usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.

Interestnoun

Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.

Interestnoun

The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.

Interestnoun

a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something;

Interestnoun

the power of attracting or holding one's interest (because it is unusual or exciting etc.);

Interestnoun

a reason for wanting something done;

Interestnoun

a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed;

Interestnoun

a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly);

Interestnoun

(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something;

Interestnoun

(usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims;

Interestverb

excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of

Interestverb

be on the mind of;

Interestverb

be of importance or consequence;

Interest

Interest, in finance and economics, is payment from a borrower or deposit-taking financial institution to a lender or depositor of an amount above repayment of the principal sum (that is, the amount borrowed), at a particular rate. It is distinct from a fee which the borrower may pay the lender or some third party.

Passionnoun

Any great, strong, powerful emotion, especially romantic love or hate.

Passionnoun

Fervor, determination.

Passionnoun

An object of passionate or romantic love or strong romantic interest.

Passionnoun

sexual intercourse, especially when very emotional

Passionnoun

The suffering of Jesus leading up to and during his crucifixion.

Passionnoun

A play, musical composition or display meant to commemorate the suffering of Jesus.

Passionnoun

(obsolete) Suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress.

Passionnoun

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

Passionnoun

(obsolete) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

Passionnoun

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

Passionnoun

(obsolete) Disorder of the mind; madness.

Passionverb

(obsolete) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

Passionverb

(transitive) To give a passionate character to.

Passionnoun

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.

Passionnoun

The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; - opposed to action.

Passionnoun

Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.

Passionnoun

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.

Passionnoun

Disorder of the mind; madness.

Passionnoun

Passion week. See Passion week, below.

Passionverb

To give a passionate character to.

Passionverb

To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.

Passionnoun

strong feeling or emotion

Passionnoun

intense passion or emotion

Passionnoun

something that is desired intensely;

Passionnoun

an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action

Passionnoun

a feeling of strong sexual desire

Passionnoun

any object of warm affection or devotion;

Passionnoun

the suffering of Jesus at the crucifixion

Passionnoun

strong and barely controllable emotion

Passionnoun

a state or outburst of strong emotion

Passionnoun

intense sexual love

Passionnoun

an intense desire or enthusiasm for something

Passionnoun

a thing arousing great enthusiasm

Passionnoun

the suffering and death of Jesus

Passionnoun

an account of the Passion from any of the Gospels.

Passionnoun

a musical setting of any of the biblical accounts of the Passion