Love and Friendship: pass, passio

Learn this list of vocabulary stemming from the Latin passio and the Greek pathos meaning "passion" and "suffering." Not to be confused with the Latin verb passare meaning "to walk, pace, or step."
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  1. compassion
    a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
  2. compassionate
    showing or having sympathy for another's suffering
  3. dispassionate
    unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
  4. impassioned
    characterized by intense emotion
  5. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  6. passion
    a strong feeling or emotion
  7. passionate
    having or expressing strong emotions
  8. passive
    lacking in energy or will
  9. passivity
    the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative
  10. passive voice
    when the subject of a sentence is a recipient of the action
Created on Fri Jun 06 16:03:38 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Jun 10 11:57:29 EDT 2025)

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