ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overfondness

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Overfondness is a noun meaning Excessive fondness.

Meaning

Excessive fondness.

Example Sentences

Pryor's overfondness for medium-tempo shuffles can make his shows a little predictable, and his stage presence is more sincere than flamboyant.
The brilliant light which blazed around the Throne could find no fault in the actual performance of any duty; but the critical eye and caustic pen had been prone for some years to allege an overfondness for pleasure and amusement and the pursuits of social life.
Where those old songs give one a reassuring feeling even as they discuss personal calamities--losing a lover, or a job, or family, or discovering an overfondness for something addictive like alcohol, or pot, or, again, love--McFerrin's calamities are of the easily overcome, cardboard sort that appear in brief glimpses during ads depicting Reagan's America, brief signs of the bad that we can shoo away if we only keep up a good mental attitude.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overattachment, overdevotion, doting, overcloseness, overinvolvement, dotage.

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