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fervor

noun
/ˈfɜː.və/UK/ˈfɝ.vɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English fervour, from Old French, from Latin fervor (“a boiling or raging heat, heat, vehemence, passion”), from fervere (“to boil, be hot”); see fervent. By surface analysis, Latin ferv- + -or (“abstract noun suffix”).

  1. derived from fervor
  2. inherited from fervour

Definitions

  1. An intense, heated emotion

    An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.

    • The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.

  2. A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.

  3. Heat.

The neighborhood

Derived

fervorent, fervorless, fervorous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fervor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01fervor02heat03spice04pungent05stings06sting07bump08protuberance09swelling10passion

A definitional loop anchored at fervor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at fervor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA