Dictionary Definition
fondness
Noun
1 a predisposition to like something; "he had a
fondness for whiskey" [syn: fancy, partiality]
2 a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble
expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"
[syn: affection,
affectionateness,
tenderness, heart, warmheartedness]
3 a quality proceeding from feelings of affection
or love [syn: affectionateness,
lovingness, warmth]
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Amor,
Christian love, Eros,
Platonic love, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor, attachment, blind faith,
bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, credulity, credulousness, crush, delicacy, desire, devotion, disposition to
believe, dotage, ease of
belief, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, free love, free-lovism,
gentleness, gross
credulity, gust, gusto, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, inclination, infatuation, lasciviousness, libido, like, likes, liking, love, lovemaking, married love,
overcredulity,
overcredulousness,
overopenness to conviction, overtrustfulness,
partiality, passion, physical love, popular
regard, popularity,
predilection, rash
conviction, regard,
relish, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, soft spot, softheartedness,
softness, spiritual
love, taste, tender
feeling, tender passion, tenderheartedness,
tenderness, truelove, trustfulness, uncritical
acceptance, uncriticalness,
unquestioning belief, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness,
unsuspectingness,
unsuspiciousness,
uxoriousness, warm
heart, warmheartedness,
weakness, will to
believe, willingness to believe, wishful belief, wishful thinking,
worship, yearning