fondness
Syllables: fond·ness/ˈfɒndnəs/US/ˈfɑndnəs/
fondness noun: the quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
Noun
fondness (countable and uncountable, plural fondnesses)
- 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
- Britain's contribution to railway film history has been very great and can be almost entirely laid at the door of that very fine producer Sir Michael Balcon, who I suspect has a secret fondness for trains himself, so many railway pictures has he caused to be made.1958 February, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90
- Synonyms:
- love affair
fondness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
fondness in Hindi
- fondness, love
- दुलार dulār, चाहत cāhat
- fondness
- प्यार pyār
fondness in Tamil
- உவவு, கொள்கை, உவகை, வச்சணத்தி, சோட்டை, நசை
fondness in Urdu
- fondness, affection
- عاشق 'āśiq
- fondness
- چاہت cāhat
fondness in Telugu
- fondness, affection
- సరదా saradā
More languagesFewer languages
- fondness in Malayalam
- സ്നേഹം, ഇഷ്ടം, ഇതവ്, പ്രസാദം
- fondness in Kannada
- ಅನುರಾಗ
- fondness in Gujarati
- ચાહત cāhat
- fondness in Sanskrit
- अनुराग anurāga
- fondness in Assamese
- মৰম morom
Examples of fondness in a sentence
- 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.1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, “Part I, Chapter xvii”, in The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai:
- Trump’s grotesque and incomprehensible fondness for Putin makes the details of any deal highly dangerous for Europe and the NATO alliance, founded to confront Russia.2024 November 9, Nick Paton Walsh, “Trump’s second term could bring chaos around the world. Will it work?”, in CNN:
Synonyms of fondness
Forms of fondness
| plural | fondnesses |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | fondnesse |
Origin of fondness
From Middle English fondnes, fondnesse, fonnednesse, equivalent to fond + -ness.
Words formed from fondness
Questions about fondness
- What does fondness mean?
- Fondness means the quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
- What is fondness in Hindi?
- Fondness in Hindi is दुलार (dulār), चाहत (cāhat), प्यार (pyār). See Fondness meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fondness in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is fondness?
- Fondness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fondness?
- Fondness is pronounced /ˈfɑndnəs/ (US).
- What is the plural of fondness?
- The plural of fondness is fondnesses.
Words near fondness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fondness (page history and authors); चाहत (Hindi) (page history and authors); fondness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); عاشق (Urdu) (page history and authors); సరదా (Telugu) (page history and authors); fondness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); fondness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ચાહત (Gujarati) (page history and authors); अनुराग (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); মৰম (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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