Passions of European movements (8)
I believe the answer is:
emotions
'passions' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'of european movements' is the wordplay.
'of european' becomes 'e' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'movements' becomes 'motions' ('motion' can be a synonym of 'movement').
'e'+'motions'='EMOTIONS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emotions that I've seen before include "Feelings provoked by noise, Tom" , "Anger and love, say" , "instinctive feelings" , "Strong feelings" , "Intense mental feelings, like love or hate" .)