Meaning of FONDNESS
| Pronunciation: | | 'fândnis
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- [n] a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
- [n] a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"
- [n] a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"
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| | Synonyms: | | affection, affectionateness, affectionateness, fancy, heart, lovingness, partiality, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmth |
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| | See Also: | | attachment, emotionalism, emotionality, feeling, fond regard, liking, protectiveness, regard, respect, soft spot, tenderness, uxoriousness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fond"ness\, n.
1. The quality or state of being fond; foolishness. [Obs.]
Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet
fetters, though they golden be. --Spenser.
2. Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite,
propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.
My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee.
--Addison.
Syn: Attachment; affection; love; kindness.
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| | Related Terms: | | admiration, adoration, affection, agape, Amor, ardency, ardor, attachment, blind faith, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity, Christian love, conjugal love, credulity, credulousness, crush, delicacy, desire, devotion, disposition to believe, dotage, ease of belief, Eros, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, free love, free-lovism, gentleness, gross credulity, gust, gusto, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, inclination, infatuation, lasciviousness, libido, like, likes, liking, love, lovemaking, married love, overcredulity, overcredulousness, overopenness to conviction, overtrustfulness, partiality, passion, physical love, Platonic love, popular regard, popularity, predilection, rash conviction, regard, relish, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, soft spot, softheartedness, softness, spiritual love, taste, tender feeling, tender passion, tenderheartedness, tenderness, truelove, trustfulness, uncritical acceptance, uncriticalness, unquestioning belief, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness, unsuspectingness, unsuspiciousness, uxoriousness, warm heart, warmheartedness, weakness, will to believe, willingness to believe, wishful belief, wishful thinking, worship, yearning |
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