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fondnes

fondnes is the obsolete spelling of fondness.

Meaning of fondness

Noun

fondness (countable and uncountable, plural fondnesses)

  1. The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
    • 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...1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, “Part I, Chapter xvii”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
    Synonyms:
    love affair

Forms of fondnes

pluralfondneses

Questions about fondnes

What is fondnes the obsolete spelling of?
Fondnes is the obsolete spelling of fondness.

Words near fondnes in the dictionary

  1. fondlesome
  2. fondling
  3. fondlingly
  4. fondlings
  5. fondly
  6. fondnes
  7. fondneses
  8. fondness
  9. fondnesses
  10. fondom
  11. fondoms

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