fondness
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2.8
- noun
- /ˈfɒndnəs/
:
cariño
- Will you look back on your life with fondness or regret?
- develop a fondness
- show a fondness
- a great fondness
She's a redhead, and I wonder about your particular fondness for redheads.
- She's a redhead, and I wonder about your particular fondness for redheads.
- And I think it's something I'll look back on with huge fondness, really.
- So it's a, I feel like I've had these dips constantly throughout my career, but I look back at it now with fondness because I know I know they've made me stronger.
- The reason I have so much fondness for this place is because I remember how hard it was while I was here.
- I spoke to people with great fondness for Ray who feel sad about what he's become and what the principles have become.
- It is with great fondness that I recall our many conversations lounging on the old furniture in the back of the Sackler Building.
- And so this doesn't necessarily mean that you can't have fondness, that you can't love your, your, your children, love your parents, love your spouse.
- But actually they, they developed a fondness for, for the country and they became settled in the country and they established their home in the country.
- So I really uncovered my own lostness to find my fondness.
Examples
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Her fondness for classical music started when she attended her first concert.
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Her fondness for you was quite evident the night she saved your life.
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The reason I have so much fondness for this place is because I remember how hard it was while I was here.
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I have a fondness for almost all Greek things.
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Despite his gruff manner, she had a genuine fondness and respect for Calvin.
Fiction book (1992) -
Kessler does not hunt or bird-watch, but he has a fondness for the wooden figures.
Academic text (2002) -
Plowing across America, it felt difficult at the time, but looking back on it now they were, in many ways, the most rewarding days, the days I look back with most fondness.
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A revealing example is her fondness for imagining the previous tenant of her house, Mrs. McGinn.
Academic text (2013) -
She's a redhead, and I wonder about your particular fondness for redheads.
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I have a deep fondness for the stories my grandmother used to tell me.
Synonyms
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1.0
A strong feeling of care and liking for someone or something
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1.4
A gentle warm feeling for a person, animal, or thing
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1.0
A friendly, kind feeling in the way someone speaks or acts
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3.3
A strong feeling of liking and caring for someone or something
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4.2
A sudden or short liking for something
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3.4
A gentle caring feeling of love and concern for someone
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3.4
A strong feeling of love and respect for someone or something
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1.0
A feeling of pleasure for a person or thing
Warm, kind feelings for a person or place
A strong, loving loyalty and care for someone or something
Antonyms
How Affectionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Fondness comes from the old word fond, which once could mean 'foolish' or 'eager'. Over time people used fond to mean a warm liking, so fondness now means a strong, warm feeling of affection.