Fondness

Quick meaning: Fondness is a noun meaning The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.

Meaning

The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.

Example Sentences

Trump’s grotesque and incomprehensible fondness for Putin makes the details of any deal highly dangerous for Europe and the NATO alliance, founded to confront Russia.

Britain's contribution to railway film history has been very great and can be almost entirely laid at the door of that very fine producer Sir Michael Balcon, who I suspect has a secret fondness for trains himself, so many railway pictures has he caused to be made.

I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.

Word Forms

• fondnesses
• fondnesse

Synonyms for fondness

Depending on context, synonyms include fancy, affection, warmth, heart, tenderness, partiality.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include affectionateness, lovingness, affection, tenderness, warmheartedness, fancy.

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