Words and phrases that have a meaning related to fondness: (148 results)
Often used in the same context:
distaste, penchant, affinity, predilection, affection, fascination, admiration, disdain, aversion, infatuation, passion, dislike, proclivity, reverence, obsession, knack, devotion, antipathy, preference, love, distain, abhorrence, adoration, detestation, liking, desire, appetite, loathing, propensity, kinship, longing, enthusiasm, hankering, disinterest, bashfulness, nostalgia, allure, admirer, eagerness, zest, gregariousness, quirkiness, preoccupation, flair, familiarity, eccentricities, popularity, ambivalence, touchiness, yearning, orneriness, wariness, courtliness, unpretentiousness, dandyism, mischievousness, joie de vivre, pleasure, loquaciousness, irrepressibility, exoticness, gratitude, slyness, relish, earthiness, playfulness, sheepishness, surliness, bookishness, garrulousness, cantankerousness, friendship, charm, geniality, gaudiness, camaraderie, closeness, solicitousness, oddness, anglophilia, snobbishness, keenness, backslapper, disenchantment, fastidiousness, nonchalance, sensibility, aficionado, prickliness, bon vivant, homeliness, insouciance, reticence, fleshiness, rapport, disinclination, coyness, wryness, steeliness, empathy, virtues, connoisseur, repugnance, partiality, diffidence, reluctance, veneration, solicitude, leniency, unwillingness, distrust, hesitancy
More specific:
attachment, fond regard, protectiveness, regard, respect, soft spot, tenderness, uxoriousness
Appears in the definition of:
bookish, bosom, care for, crazy, dotty, embrace, enamored, fondly, gaga, hug, infatuated, in love, lovingly, smitten, soft onp, squeeze, studious, taken withp, uxoriousness
More general:
emotionalism, emotionality, feeling
Synonyms:
Also try:affectionateness, fancy, heart, lovingness, warmheartedness, warmth
— Adjectives for fondness: great, special, particular, passionate, excessive, certain, peculiar, much, natural, genuine, parental, more...
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