fondness

Definitions

1. The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity
2. The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

CEFR level