pass-, pati- +
(Latin: suffering, feeling; enduring)
passible
Capable of feeling, especially pain or suffering; susceptible to sensation.
passion
1. A strong liking or desire for or devotion to some object, activity, or concept; extreme, compelling emotion; intense emotional drive or excitement; as shown in the following examples:
- Great anger, rage, or fury; a crime that is motivated by an extreme emotion, especially sexual jealousy: "The crime was committed in a fit of passion"; also termed, "a crime of passion".
- Enthusiasm or fondness for; something a person enjoys or loves doing very much: "Writing has always been his passion."
- Strong love or affection; craze, mania: "She spoke with passion about preserving the building."
- Amorous feelings; strong sexual affection, sexual drive, or desire; love; lust: "She never felt such passion for anyone except him."
2. Latin
passion was chiefly a word used in Christian theology; when capitalized,
Passion refers especially to the sufferings of Jesus Christ on the Cross (also it often includes His Agony in Gethsemane).
Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and settling them to do useful work.
—Aldous Huxley
Asthma is a disease that has practically the same symptoms as passion, except that with asthma it lasts longer.
—Anonymous
If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
—Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Passions are vices or virtues in their highest powers.
—Johann von Goethe
passional
Relating to or marked by passion; also, a book describing the sufferings of the martyrs.
passionate
Having or showing strong feeling; full of passion; fervent, intense, ardent, earnest; including:
1. Easily angered; hot-tempered.
2. Resulting from, expressing, or tending to arouse strong feelings.
3. Implies great vehemence and often violence and wasteful dispersal of emotion.
passionless
1. Without passion.
2. In medicine, painless, without suffering.
passive
1. Influenced or acted upon without exerting influence or acting in return; offering no opposition or resistance; receiving or enduring without resistance; submissive; unassertive, compliant.
2. Acted upon by an external agency; receptive to outside impressions or influences without resistance.
passively
1. In a passive manner; without resistance.
2. With a passive nature or temper; with a temper disposed to submit to the acts of external agents.
passivity
1. The trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative.
2. Submission to others or to outside influences.
3. The tendency of a body to persevere in a given state, either of motion or rest, until disturbed by another body.
4. Chemical inactivity; especially, the resistance to corrosion of certain metals when covered with a coherent oxide layer.
patience
The capacity, habit, or fact of being calm and enduring pain, or affliction, with composure and without complaint; calm endurance, forbearance.
A lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
—Ken Hubbard
Endurance is patience concentrated.
—Thomas Carlyle
He that can have patience can have what he will.
—Benjamin Franklin
Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.
—Chinese Proverb
If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
—Hal Borland
Patience is a quality that is most needed when it is exhausted and it's also the ability to do something else while waiting. Patience is the most important virtue to cultivate if you are always punctual.
—Evan Esar
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
—Laurence J. Peter
Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
—Bulgarian proverb
patient
1. Bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint; steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity.
2. Calmly tolerating delay, confusion, inefficiency, etc. [Originally, patient, which comes from the Latin pati (to suffer), was applied to anyone who was under a doctor’s care because he was sick or injured; however, patient has long since come to mean anyone who is under a doctor's care whether healthy or ill.
patiently
1. The ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties.
2. To suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed.
3. With calmness or composure; without discontent or murmuring: "You must submit patiently to the unavoidable evils of life."
4. With calm and constant diligence; as, to examine a subject patiently.
5. Without agitation, uneasiness or discontent; without undue haste or eagerness; such as, to wait patiently for more favorable events.
patripassion
A belief held, as certain early believers, that God the Father suffered with or in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, for the redemption of mankind.
satispassion
In religion, achieving atonement with an adequate degree of suffering.
self-compatible
Used in botany to indicate a plant that can be fertilized by means of its own pollen.
uncompassionate
Not sympathetic; unfeeling.
If you would like to take a couple of self-scoring quizzes over some of the words in this section, then click on the Pati-Quiz links below.
Self-scoring Pass-, Pati- Quiz #1.
Self-scoring Pass-, Pati- Quiz #2.
Related-word units meaning feeling:
aesth-;
senso-;
patho-.
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