Adjective : a passionate advocate of socialism. ,passionate language. ,passionate grief.    From Dictionary.com. 

His frightful passionateness was making all the trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Monkey] Reference

I could win out yet against life — against my own passionateness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Becoming Susan Sontag] Reference

By these remarks, I do not mean to charge on the laboring class all the passionateness of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference

He would play violently, feverishly, with a wild passionateness of gesture which robbed him of all ability to control his own technic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

The young man — fortified as he was by a natural cynical pride and passionateness — winced at this unexpected reply, notwithstanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Changed Man] Reference

Haydn's pious hilarity, Beethoven's violent passionateness, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

But this hasty passionateness -- it isn't right, it isn't decent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saint's Progress] Reference

"That's nothing to do with it," she cried with quick passionateness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Return of the Native] Reference

He had charm, attraction and a passionateness that was feverish rather than deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Memories] Reference

They were fired by the apostle's earnest passionateness in proclaiming a crucified Saviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76.] Reference

My Lord's passionateness for want thereof, and his want of coming in of rents, and no wages from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference

Otherwise it might not have seemed to me that her thin nostrils had got their passionateness lately.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cavalier] Reference

Mrs. Mendoza played with a passionateness which was quite out of keeping with her mask-like expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Desert] Reference

Johnnie, with my passionateness; but it is difficult for me to conceal from you anything that moves my heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]

My Lord's passionateness for want thereof, and his want of coming in of rents, and no wages from the Duke of York.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 47: November 1666] Reference

Lydia must, for some time, be removed: her violent unreasonable love and passionateness hinders the Baron’s recovery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter IV. Book VII] Reference

And then with tender passionateness he asks for the washing to take in all his extremities, head and hands as well as feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on John's Gospel] Reference

And if we of the cold North can scarcely comprehend the childish passionateness and emotional unreserve of the more sensitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist] Reference

The awe and fear of him diminished more and more, but the love and reverence increased to greater and greater passionateness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America] Reference

The young man -- fortified as he was by a natural cynical pride and passionateness -- winced at this unexpected reply, notwithstanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages] Reference

The cold, unnatural indifference of her manner, a kind of frozen passionateness which had shocked and chilled the sculptor, disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference

Poetry he loved with the passionateness of a first affection; but he could not live by it; he honoured it too highly to wish to live by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works] Reference

He has, in the midst of all his confusion and passionateness, the true instinct of philosophy — the true venatic sense of objective truth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spare Hours] Reference

His strangeness or distortion, his profound subjectivity, his passionateness -- the cor laceratum -- Rousseau makes all men in love with these.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference

Only there showed in them now and then a kind of tigerish passionateness, as when I fell off the sea-wall among the boulders and howled so dismally.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spread Eagle and Other Stories] Reference

When she spoke, it was in a rather weak voice, but full of lights and shades, and somehow intense passionateness never seemed to be far away from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference

From earliest youth he had accomplished what he desired with the passionateness of one who does not understand failure, or the need of yielding something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero] Reference

The light temperament tends to frivolity, the warm to passionateness and revenge, the cool to indifference and indolence, the heavy to selfishness and narrowness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.] Reference

Almost for the first time in their evening's talk her natural passionateness came to sight -- the Southern, impulsive temper, that so often made people laugh at or dislike her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir George Tressady — Volume I] Reference

It has perceived, among the evil, good which it had overlooked in an indignant haste and passionateness, learnt from those who should have taught it wisdom, patience, and charity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discipline and Other Sermons] Reference

However, Evelyn Waugh said he hoped for cricket's interest the game did not go too s. terile and lose its passionateness as a consequence of drawn-out arrests for picture replays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Money on the internet] Reference

'passionateness,' his 'covetousness,' his 'time-serving' and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents] Reference

A passionateness, that much of the music of Debussy successive to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

She smiled with an odd passionateness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France] Reference

317; passionateness, i.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington]