Word Meanings - FONDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being fond; foolishness. Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be. Spenser. 2. Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness

Additional info about word: FONDNESS

1. The quality or state of being fond; foolishness. Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be. Spenser. 2. Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles. My heart had still some foolish fondness for thee. Addison. Syn.- Attachment; affection; love; kindness.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FONDNESS)

• Liking
• Love
• approval
• relish
• infection
• taste
• inclination
• partiality
• fondness
• Partiality
• Preponderance
• love
• Predilection
• Prepossession
• preference
• leaning
• liking
• bias
• predisposition
• tendency
• prejudice

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FONDNESS)

• Repudiate
• nauseate
• reject
• abominate
• loathe

Related words: (words related to FONDNESS)

• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• RELISHABLE
  Capable of being relished; agreeable to the taste; gratifying.
• LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
  See CHAUCER
• LEANLY
  Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
• LIKABLE
  Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• LIKIN
  A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. "Likin," which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, "squeezes" imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• PREDILECTION
  A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.
• LEAN-TO
  Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n.
• LEANNESS
  The condition or quality of being lean.
• TASTE
  by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• ABOMINATE
  To turn from as ill-omened; to hate in the highest degree, as if with religious dread; loathe; as, to abominate all impiety. Syn. -- To hate; abhor; loathe; detest. See Hate.
• REJECTABLE
  Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.
• PREDISPOSITION
  1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,
• LIKE-MINDED
  Having a like disposition or purpose; of the same mind. Tillotson.
• LIKEWISE
  In like manner; also; moreover; too. See Also. Go, and do thou likewise. Luke x. 37. For he seeth that wise men die; likewise the fool and the brutish person perish. Ps. xlix. 10.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• WELL-LIKING
  Being in good condition. They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer .
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• COWLIKE
  Resembling a cow. With cowlike udders and with oxlike eyes. Pope.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• QUAKERLIKE
  Like a Quaker.
• ACHILLEAN
  Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.
• MAPLIKE
  Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.
• DISLIKE
  1. To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish. Every nation dislikes an impost. Johnson. 2. To awaken dislike in; to displease. "Disliking countenance." Marston. "It dislikes me." Shak.