DEVOTEDNESS Synonyms

• a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)

• intense feeling of love

• feelings of great warmth and intensity

• the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose

• the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action

• an engagement by contract involving financial obligation

• a message that makes a pledge

• the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

• the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation

• (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation

• faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)

• complete and wholehearted fidelity

• a ceremony in which something (as a building) is dedicated to some goal or purpose

• a message that makes a pledge

• a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something

• the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action

• the quality of being faithful

• feelings of great warmth and intensity

• the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up

• the quality of being loyal

• feelings of allegiance

• the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action

• an earnest and sincere feeling

• the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical

• a quality of naturalness and simplicity

• the trait of being serious

• loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty

• steadfast resolution

• feelings of ardent love

• commitment to some purpose

• religious zeal; the willingness to serve God

• (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently)