ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness
(noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity; āhe spoke with great ardorā
excitement, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervour
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; āhis face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembledā; āhe tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammationā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fervor (countable and uncountable, plural fervors)
(American spelling) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor.
(American spelling) A passionate enthusiasm for some cause.
(American spelling) Heat.
• (passionate enthusiasm): fire in the belly, zeal
• frover
Source: Wiktionary
Fer"vor, n. [Written also fervour.] Etym: [OF. fervor, fervour, F. ferveur, L. fervor, fr. fervere. See Fervent.]
1. Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. Waller.
2. Intensity of feeling or expression; glowing ardor; passion; holy zeal; earnestness. Hooker. Winged with fervor of her love. Shak.
Syn.
– Fervor, Ardor. Fervor is a boiling heat, and ardor is a burning heat. Hence, in metaphor, we commonly use fervor and its derivatives when we conceive of thoughts or emotions under the image of ebullition, or as pouring themselves forth. Thus we speak of the fervor of passion, fervid declamation, fervid importunity, fervent supplication, fervent desires, etc. Ardent is used when we think of anything as springing from a deepseated glow of soul; as, ardent friendship, ardent zeal, ardent devotedness; burning with ardor for the fight.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., āthe father of the brideā instead of āthe brideās fatherā
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
