How to say "passion" in Japanese

• 感動かんどうJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbRefers to being deeply moved or excited emotionally, not pursuing something with passion. It fits the feeling you get from a moving story or performance, so it is usually not the word for personal drive or zeal.
  その小説しょうせつを読よんで深ふかく感動かんどうした。↗

  I was deeply moved by that novel.
• 情熱じょうねつJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounThe usual word for passion as strong enthusiasm or zeal toward work, study, a cause, or a person. If you mean someone pours their heart into an activity, this is typically the word you want.
  彼かれの私に対たいする情熱じょうねつはさめない。↗

  His passion for me doesn't cool.
• パッションCommon
  nounA loanword covering passion and enthusiasm. It has a slightly trendy or emphatic flavor and can be used like a slogan or catchphrase as well as in ordinary sentences about zeal.
  なにやら唸うなりながら、ほとばしるパッションをキャンバスにぶつけている！↗

  Groaning strangely she is hurling her overflowing passion onto the canvas!
• 愛欲あいよくCommon
  nounCovers passion in the sense of sexual desire or lust. It is not a way to talk about enthusiasm for a hobby or career, so avoid it unless the carnal sense is genuinely intended.
  大学生だいがくせいの時とき、有理子ゆりこが愛欲あいよくに身みを委ゆだねた。↗

  When she was at university, Yuriko abandoned herself to sexual passion.
• 熱情ねつじょうCommon
  nounPassion or fervor with an intense, ardent coloring. It overlaps with 情熱 for burning emotional intensity, but for everyday zeal toward an activity 情熱 is the more ordinary choice.
  熱情ねつじょうが彼女かのじょの特徴とくちょうの一ひとつだ。↗

  Passion is one of her characteristics.

For enthusiasm or strong feeling toward an activity, use 情熱; 熱情 and 「パッション」 are related options, 感動 means being moved emotionally, and 愛欲 covers sexual passion.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

• 感動かんどうbeing deeply moved emotionally
• 情熱じょうねつpassion
• パッションpassion
• 愛欲あいよくpassion
• 熱情ねつじょうardour
• 激情げきじょうviolent emotion
• 欲情よくじょうpassion
• 心猿しんえんpassion
• 情火じょうかpassion (of love)
• むかっ腹むかっぱらanger
• 欲念よくねんdesire
• 向か腹むかばらanger
• 熱ねつzeal
• 炎ほのおflames (of intense emotion, e.g. love, jealousy, anger)
• 情じょうpassion
• 熱量ねつりょう(degree of) enthusiasm
• 受難じゅなんPassion (of Christ)
• フェチpassion
• 悪い虫わるいむしpassion