fervor
Plural: fervors
Noun
- Intense and passionate feeling; great warmth or earnestness.
- feelings of great warmth and intensity
- the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
- An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
- A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
- Heat.
Examples
- The coach trains his water polo team with fervor.
- The room hummed with FERVOR as the final Scrabble tiles were laid down.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
ardor, ardour, excitation, excitement, fervency, fervidness, fervour, fire, inflammation, fire in the belly, zeal
Scrabble Score: 12
fervor: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfervor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fervor: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary