fervor
intense and passionate feeling
Root
- ferv: boiling heat or intensity
Other words with the ferv root
- effervescent: bubbly or lively
- ferment: to undergo change; to stir up unrest
- fervent: intensely passionate or earnest
- fervid: intensely enthusiastic or heated
- fever: high body temperature; intense excitement
Ferv gives heat. Fervor is feeling at a boil: intense, public, and hard to cool.
The crowd greeted the verdict with unexpected fervor, chanting in the rain.
Fervor is passion you can almost feel as temperature. It can power reform, worship, fandom, or outrage. The heat is the memory.