Synonyms for fervor
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1. fervornoun

   A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.

   Synonyms:
   fire in the belly, zeal

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1. fervor

   The old meaning of enthusiasm implies a pseudo-inspiration, an almost frantic extravagance in behalf of something supposed to be an expression of the divine will. This sense remains as the controlling one in the kindred noun enthusiast. Enthusiasm has now chiefly the meaning of an earnest and commendable devotion, an intense and eager interest. Against the hindrances of the world, nothing great and good can be carried without a certain fervor, intensity, and vehemence; these joined with faith, courage, and hopefulness make enthusiasm. Zeal is burning earnestness, always tending to vigorous action with all the devotion of enthusiasm, tho often without its hopefulness. Compare EAGER.

   Synonyms:
   ardor, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, enthusiasm, excitement, extravagance, fanaticism, fervency, frenzy, inspiration, intensity, passion, rapture, transport, vehemence, warmth, zeal

   Antonyms:
   calculation, calmness, caution, coldness, deadness, dulness, indifference, lukewarmness, policy, prudence, timidity, wariness

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1. ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidnessnoun

   feelings of great warmth and intensity

   "he spoke with great ardor"

   Synonyms:
   firing, fervency, flaming, flack, inflammation, zeal, excitement, excitation, fervour, flame, blast, fervidness, ardor, elan, flak, attack, ardour, fire

2. excitement, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervournoun

   the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

   "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation"

   Synonyms:
   firing, fervency, lighting, turmoil, redness, kindling, innervation, inflammation, excitement, ignition, ardour, excitation, agitation, fervidness, irritation, exhilaration, fire, upheaval, hullabaloo, rubor, inflaming, fervour, ardor

Matched Categories

1. • Emotional Arousal
   • Passion

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1. fervornoun

   Synonyms:
   heat, warmth

2. fervornoun

   Synonyms:
   ardor, zeal, earnestness, eagerness, fervency

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1. fervornoun

   Synonyms:
   ardor

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1. List of paraphrases for "fervor":

   fervour, zeal, enthusiasm, passion

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How to use fervor in a sentence?

1. David Letterman:

   We're told that (the terrorists) were zealots fueled by religious fervor, and if you live to be a thousand years old, will that make any sense to you. Will that make any goddamn sense.

2. Benjamin Disraeli:

   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.

3. Douglas MacArthur:

   The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

4. Douglas MacArthur:

   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. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

5. Frantz Fanon:

   Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.