Fervent and fervid come from the same root,meaning to boil.
#Ardour meaning free#
Of these, only ardent is free of negative implications in describing both desire and dedication: an ardent lover an ardent patriot. Ardent, fiery, and burning describe intense feeling in terms of fire. These words describe intense states of desire, dedication, or conviction. Hayakawa, Modern Guide to Synonyms and Related Words (1968) addresses the adjective forms ardent, fervent, and fervid in a group of synonyms headed by passionate and also including burning, fiery, impassioned, vehement, and zealous: "In the prints of Harunobu there is an intense sympathy with youth, with its shyness, its tremulous ardours" ( Binyon).įorty-two years later, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1984) retains the "steady glow or burning" versus "restless or leaping flame" distinction that its predecessor did. "The hieratic Buddhist art was to become formal and gradually lose the fervour of its inner life" ( Binyon). Fervor is associated therefore with emotions that express themselves in prayer, contemplation, devotion, preaching, in works of art, or the like ardor, with emotions that express themselves in eager longings, zealous efforts, or the like as, the fervor of the nun the ardor of a missionary to exhort with fervor to dampen one's ardor. Fervor and ardor both imply the kindling of emotion to a high degree of heat, but fervor suggests rather a steady glow or burning and ardor a restless or leaping flame. Passion, fervor (or fervour), ardor (or ardour), enthusiasm, zeal agree in denoting intense, high-wrought emotion.
Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms (1942), in contrast, has a fairly detailed discussion of the distinctions it sees between fervor and ardor, as part of a broader entry for passion: Unfortunately, Fernald doesn't devote any space to identifying precisely what the two words mean or how they differ. For example, James Fernald, English Synonyms, Antonyms and Prepositions, thirty-first edition (1914) lists the two words (along with 18 others) under the general heading of enthusiasm.
Various dictionaries of synonyms mention and-to some degree-discuss ardor and fervor as related terms.
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