Word.ws English Dictionary

impassioning

impassioning is the present participle and gerund of impassion.

Meaning of impassion

Verb

impassion (third-person singular simple present impassions, present participle impassioning, simple past and past participle impassioned)

  1. (transitive) make passionate, instill passion in
    • Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people.1912, Arnold Bennett, Your United States

Questions about impassioning

What is impassioning the present participle and gerund of?
Impassioning is the present participle and gerund of impassion.

Words near impassioning in the dictionary

  1. impassionates
  2. impassionating
  3. impassioned
  4. impassionedly
  5. impassionedness
  6. impassioning
  7. impassionment
  8. impassions
  9. impassive
  10. impassively
  11. impassiveness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: impassioning (page history and authors); impassion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “impassioning.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/impassioning. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.