warmth(FEELING)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Liking
adorkable
affection
appreciate
approve of someone
attached
be a glutton for somethingidiom
dig
grow on someone
hatefully
have a lot of time for someoneidiom
have a thing about something/someoneidiom
lick your lipsidiom
shook
smile
smile on something/someone
smitten
soft corner
taste
tight
warm

fondness | American Dictionary

fondness
noun[ U ]
us/ˈfɑnd·nəs/
a great liking for someone or something:
Ruth has a real fondness for old houses.

Examples of fondness

fondness
The work is a clear expression of the young artist's growing awareness and fondness for formal structures and techniques from the polyphonic tradition.
Childbearing is considered a privilege and obligation, and there is a strong fondness for large families.
Due to the success of the workshop and the school's fondness for the canopy, it remained in the courtyard during the summer of 2002.
She shows no fondness for her own youthful innocence and betrays downright hostility toward her own child.
The recurrent images of dungeons, together with an escapist fondness for exotic foreign locations, tell their own significant story.
And ad-makers have a special fondness for rhyme and alliteration and make free use of clichés.
A wife is said to have terrified an entire county with crime and a fondness for litigation.
The aristocratic fondness for drink meant that they spectacularly resisted the attempted imposition of abstinence at the entertainment.
His fondness of ethnographic detail (of which the subsequent paper gives some further examples) never obliterated a much wider theoretical interest in social theory and philosophy of language.
The use of emoticons and other signs and symbols seems in some ways to be an extension of the current general fondness for symbols and logos.
Colin's fondness for the minutiae of interpersonal relationships allowed him to detect subtleties of wit and (sometimes biting) humour.
The piano sounds a dying chord in the middle of the keyboard - though it had previously shown a fondness for its extremes - and the piece is done.
Given the effective absence of copyright restrictions on such local releases, and the fondness of hearing local versions of foreign tunes, the covers elicited neither legal restrictions nor aesthetic disapproval.
More accurately, it's a fondness for youth.
The author's fondness of the subject shows in the engaging text, but so does his frustration and amusement at some of the soft spots and excesses in ichnology.
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