(pash′ən) noun
1. Intense or overpowering emotion.
2. An eager outreaching of mind toward some special object, as art, travel, etc.; fervid devotion.
3. Ardent affection for one of the opposite sex; love; also, the object of such feeling.
4. A fit of intense and furious anger; rage.
5. Any transport of excited feeling; violent agitation.
6. A strong impulse tending to physical indulgence.
7. plural Inordinate appetites; sexual desires.
8. The state or condition of being acted upon; subjecting to external force, as opposed to acting or doing: the philosophical sense.
9. The endurance of some painful infliction; suffering.
10. Obs. Some painful disease. See synonyms under ANGER, APPETITE, ENTHUSIASM, FEELING, LOVE, VIOLENCE, WARMTH. [<OF passiun <L passio, -onis suffering <passus, pp. of patiri suffer]

(pash′ən) noun
1. The sufferings of Christ, especially in the agony of the garden and on the cross; also, their representation in art.
2. That part of the Gospels which relates the Passion and death of Christ.