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Fondness
//ˈfɑndnəs// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love wordnet
- 3 a predisposition to like something wordnet
- 4 a positive feeling of liking wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English fondnes, fondnesse, fonnednesse, equivalent to fond + -ness.
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