Fondness
['fɒn(d)nəs]
Definition
(noun.) a predisposition to like something; 'he had a fondness for whiskey'.
Checked by Justin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.
(n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Warm love, childish affection, excessive tenderness.[2]. Liking, partiality, predilection.
Editor: Timmy
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FOND]
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Examples
- They have no fondness for their colts or foals, but the care they take in educating them proceeds entirely from the dictates of reason. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He loved his daughter with more fondness now, perhaps, than ever he had done since the days of her childhood. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His own aversion to reform, his fondness for vast epochs and his contempt for current effort have left most of his psychological laws in the region of interesting literary comment. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The elder Rawdon was thankful for the fondness of mother and daughter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Nevertheless, I so loved that unworthy girl that my life was made stormy by my fondness for her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He has no indulgence for me--no fondness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I thought of the assistant's fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the cellar. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- You--every woman older than herself, must feel for such a simple, innocentgirlish fairy a sort of motherly or elder-sisterly fondness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The dependent fondness of her nursling, the natural affection of her child, came over her suavely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yet at this time, with human fondness, she clung to all that her human senses permitted her to see and feel to be a part of Raymond. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Shirley, in spite of her whims and oddities, her dodges and delays, has an infatuated fondness for him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This face, potent in the majesty of its traits, shed down on her hope, fondness, delight. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The blind fondness which was for ever producing evil around her she had never known. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I explained that my _fondness_ for a sea-voyage had yet to undergo the test of experience; I had never made one. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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