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fondnesses

fondnesses is the plural 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

Questions about fondnesses

What is fondnesses the plural of?
Fondnesses is the plural of fondness.

Words near fondnesses in the dictionary

  1. fondlings
  2. fondly
  3. fondnes
  4. fondneses
  5. fondness
  6. fondnesses
  7. fondom
  8. fondoms
  9. fondon
  10. fondons
  11. fondouk

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