fondness

fond·ness  (fndns)

n.

1. Warm affection or liking. See Synonyms at love.

2. A strong inclination or preference; a taste: a fondness for sweets; a fondness for travel.

3. Archaic Naive trustfulness; credulity.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fondness - a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey" partiality, fancy liking - a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment; "I've always had a liking for reading"; "she developed a liking for gin"
	2.	fondness - a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" affection, affectionateness, philia, warmness, warmheartedness, tenderness, heart feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" attachment, fond regard - a feeling of affection for a person or an institution protectiveness - a feeling of protective affection regard, respect - a feeling of friendship and esteem; "she mistook his manly regard for love"; "he inspires respect" soft spot - a sentimental affection; "she had a soft spot for her youngest son"
	3.	fondness - a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love affectionateness, lovingness, warmth emotionalism, emotionality - emotional nature or quality tenderness - a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling uxoriousness - foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife

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fondness

noun

1. devotion, love, affection, warmth, attachment, kindness, tenderness, care a great fondness for children
devotion opposition, hostility, dislike, hatred, contempt, resentment, loathing, malice, animosity, aversion, antagonism, antipathy, enmity, coldness, harshness, bad blood, ill will, animus, repulsion, abhorrence, malevolence, repugnance, detestation, unfriendliness

2. liking, love, taste, fancy, attraction, weakness, preference, attachment, penchant, susceptibility, predisposition, soft spot, predilection, partiality I've always had a fondness for jewels.

Translations

fondness [ˈfɒndnɪs] N (for person) → cariño m (for por) (for thing) → afición f (for a) his fondness for cooking → su afición a la cocina
there were rumours about her fondness for alcohol → corrían rumores sobre su afición al alcohol
he has a fondness for all things Italian → le gusta mucho todo lo italiano → tiene inclinación por todo lo italiano
I remember my childhood with fondness → recuerdo mi infancia con cariño

fondness [ˈfɒndnɪs] n

(for thing) to have a fondness for sth → avoir un penchant pour qch
a special fondness for → une prédilection pour
to remember sth with fondness → garder un souvenir ému de qch

(for people) → affection f
to remember sb with fondness → garder un souvenir attendri de qn

fondness

n (for people) → Zuneigung f, → Liebe f → (for zu); (for food, place, writer etc) → Vorliebe f → (for für); (for music, art) → Liebe f → (for zu); his fondness for or of swimming → seine Vorliebe fürs Schwimmen; to remember something/past times with great fondness → sehr gern an etw (acc) → /an vergangene Zeiten zurückdenken

fondness [ˈfɒndnɪs] n fondness (for sth) → predilezione f (per qc)
fondness (for sb) → affetto (per qn)

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fondness [ˈfɒndnɪs] n fondness (for sth) → predilezione f (per qc)
fondness (for sb) → affetto (per qn)