Fervour
noun
Intense and passionate feeling or enthusiasm.
She spoke with fervour about her interest in arts.
Often appears as...
- religious fervour
- patriotic fervour
noun
An intense heat.
He was burning with the fervour of the disease.
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Technical
noun
Intense and passionate feeling or enthusiasm.
She spoke with fervour about her interest in arts.
Often appears as...
- religious fervour
- patriotic fervour
noun
An intense heat.
He was burning with the fervour of the disease.
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Fervour often implies a deep, emotional engagement with something.
His fervour for social change was evident in his speech.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Fervour usually has a positive connotation, suggesting admiration for someone's intense passion.
Her fervour for teaching inspired her students.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
Use fervour when discussing topics like beliefs, interests, or causes that one can be passionate about.
The crowd's fervour was palpable at the charity event.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Fervour often implies a deep, emotional engagement with something.
His fervour for social change was evident in his speech.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Fervour usually has a positive connotation, suggesting admiration for someone's intense passion.
Her fervour for teaching inspired her students.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
Use fervour when discussing topics like beliefs, interests, or causes that one can be passionate about.
The crowd's fervour was palpable at the charity event.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Fervour often implies a deep, emotional engagement with something.
His fervour for social change was evident in his speech.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Fervour usually has a positive connotation, suggesting admiration for someone's intense passion.
Her fervour for teaching inspired her students.
Pro Tip 3/3Context Specific
Use fervour when discussing topics like beliefs, interests, or causes that one can be passionate about.
The crowd's fervour was palpable at the charity event.
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Should we be looking for...
to deny the very pioneering spirits that help shape our own species. We are all born curious about the world and the universe. Pursuing that curiosity is one of humankind's greatest achievements. Perhaps there is room to push the frontiers of science, provided that we cradle alongside our fervor
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Rare Ghost Orchid Has...
this it feels like the cloth come to life I kind of do too I wouldn't be surprised if we get an inch of rain and we can actually see this swamp ride there's a really strange fervor about these orchids I didn't understand it at first but I used to say they those
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Rethinking infidelity...
Because of this romantic ideal, we are relying on our partner's fidelity with a unique fervor. But we also have never been more inclined to stray, and not because we have new desires today, but because we live in an era
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Singing together to...
in-group the people that you don't stab and take their stuff the let's say it can create fervor patriotism feeling the patriotism protest songs or obviously powerful things we shall overcome
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Should we be looking for...
to deny the very pioneering spirits that help shape our own species. We are all born curious about the world and the universe. Pursuing that curiosity is one of humankind's greatest achievements. Perhaps there is room to push the frontiers of science, provided that we cradle alongside our fervor
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Rare Ghost Orchid Has...
this it feels like the cloth come to life I kind of do too I wouldn't be surprised if we get an inch of rain and we can actually see this swamp ride there's a really strange fervor about these orchids I didn't understand it at first but I used to say they those
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
Because of this romantic ideal, we are relying on our partner's fidelity with a unique fervor. But we also have never been more inclined to stray, and not because we have new desires today, but because we live in an era
Video examples
Singing together to...
in-group the people that you don't stab and take their stuff the let's say it can create fervor patriotism feeling the patriotism protest songs or obviously powerful things we shall overcome
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Quote examples
Viswanathan Anand
Indian Celebrity
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
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Steven Stucky
American Composer
Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.
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Jonathan Haidt
American Psychologist
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.
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William Godwin
English Writer
The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.
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Camille Pissarro
French Artist
I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
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Douglas MacArthur
American General
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Dan Glickman
American Politician
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Duane Michals
American Photographer
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
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Viswanathan Anand
Indian Celebrity
My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
Quote examples
Steven Stucky
American Composer
Whatever the raw material, the material itself is unimportant until it's catalyzed by emotional fervor. So in the ideal exchange between me and my listeners, they wouldn't 'figure out' my music. They would feel their pulse racing and the hair standing up on the backs of their necks.
Quote examples
Jonathan Haidt
American Psychologist
In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is potentially addictive.
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William Godwin
English Writer
The Italian character in general is full of animation, and the natives enter into the interests and welfare of the stranger before them with a fervor that forbids all doubt of its sincerity and that is truly surprising.
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Camille Pissarro
French Artist
I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
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Douglas MacArthur
American General
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
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Drew Barrymore
American Actress
There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.
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Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
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Dan Glickman
American Politician
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
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Duane Michals
American Photographer
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
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