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UK
/fˈɒndnəs/
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[ US /ˈfɑndnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈfɑndnəs/ ]
NOUN
- a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
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a positive feeling of liking
he had trouble expressing the affection he felt
the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home
the child won everyone's heart -
a predisposition to like something
she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less
he had a fondness for whiskey
How To Use fondness In A Sentence
- If all this seems a little negative, let me assure you I now feel an almost pathological fondness for the place. Times, Sunday Times
- For the fondness or averseness of the child to some servants, will at any time let one know, whether their love to the baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present. Pamela
- He came from a musical family, and he played the trumpet and the saxophone and had a fondness for jazz. Times, Sunday Times
- I have a kind of fondness for the old poorly done by clubs like Fitzroy, even if they have been gobbled up by the Lions.
- She was a good hand at the baking, something which she retained a fondness for up to the last year of her life.
- The Romans had a special fondness for mineral spas, visiting them for medicinal and recreational purposes.
- Still, the result is an entertaining overview that can be recommended both to surfers and to landlubbers who appreciate the spectacle and have a fondness for the associated strand of American youth culture.
- Thomas Pynchon has also shown a consistent fondness for slapstick effects in his novels, drawn partly from comic cinema.
- Those we recall with greatest fondness, all cut their figures against a wider, more luminous backdrop than mere office.
- Because of the family's tradition of taking the name of one's parent of the same gender, her brother was the only Preston among many Scotts, more Stuarts, a scatter of MacLaughlins, and one Ishimoto, a great-uncle Dannan remembered with great fondness. THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK