Thesaurus / fondness
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Miss Manners’ fondness for handwritten letters is not merely due to her liking the smell of paper and ink.
MISS MANNERS: HOW TO ASK INDIRECTLY ABOUT A MISSING GIFTJUDITH MARTIN, NICHOLAS MARTIN, JACOBINA MARTINJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTStreet vendors are ubiquitous on the city’s landscape, but New Yorkers have a particular fondness for the Christmas tree migrants.
EVEN COVID CAN’T STOP NEW YORK CITY’S SIDEWALK CHRISTMAS TREE VENDORSMATTHEWHEIMERDECEMBER 24, 2020FORTUNETake, for example, our mongrel Mitty, whose fondness for chasing sticks was obsessive.
TRAVELING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC IN THE COMPANY OF DOGSWALTER NICKLINDECEMBER 18, 2020WASHINGTON POSTWhen it comes to you, she is hampered by a mix of fondness and condescension.
DARK SPACES ON THE MAPKATIE MCLEANDECEMBER 18, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWThe separation of scales suggests they’ll need to dig deep to overcome nature’s fondness for concealing its finer points from curious giants like us.
HOW MATHEMATICAL ‘HOCUS-POCUS’ SAVED PARTICLE PHYSICSCHARLIE WOODSEPTEMBER 17, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEThis judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLYThis had flattered his pride and his fondness for all dumb creatures had made them dear to him beyond his own belief.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDHere we saw many types of the Yorkshire man, famed for his shrewdness and fondness for what we would call "dickering."
BRITISH HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS FROM A MOTOR CARTHOMAS D. MURPHYMeggy had her ride, and in the days that followed she had many others and the girl's fondness for Betty became almost worship.
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN THE SADDLELAURA LEE HOPEIn fact, the object of her fondness was Spencer Cowper, who was already married.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYWORDS RELATED TO FONDNESS
- admiration
- ambitions
- appetites
- ardors
- aspirations
- attractions
- avidities
- concupiscences
- covetousness
- cravings
- crazes
- cupidity
- devotions
- dotings
- eagerness
- fancies
- fascinations
- fervor
- fondness
- frenzies
- greed
- hankerings
- hunger
- inclinations
- infatuations
- itches
- lasciviousness
- lecheries
- libidos
- likings
- loves
- lust
- manias
- motives
- needs
- passions
- predilections
- proclivities
- propensities
- rapaciousness
- raptures
- ravenousnesses
- relishes
- salacities
- solicitude
- thirsts
- urges
- voracity
- wills
- wishes
- yearnings
- adherence
- adoration
- affection
- allegiance
- ardor
- attachment
- consecration
- constancy
- dedication
- deference
- devotedness
- devotement
- devoutness
- earnestness
- enthusiasm
- faithfulness
- fealty
- fervor
- fidelity
- fondness
- intensity
- love
- observance
- passion
- piety
- reverence
- sanctity
- service
- sincerity
- spirituality
- worship
- zeal
- caprices
- conceits
- conceptions
- contrariness
- creations
- cup of teas
- desires
- druthers
- flashes
- fool's paradises
- grooves
- humors
- ideas
- images
- imaginations
- impressions
- inclinations
- irrationalities
- likings
- minds
- notions
- perverseness
- pleasures
- things
- thoughts
- vagaries
- velleities
- visualizations
- weakness fors
- whims
- wills
- big eyes
- chimera
- conception
- daydream
- delusion
- envisagement
- envisioning
- eyes for
- fabrication
- fantasy
- figment
- fondness
- hallucination
- hankering
- idea
- illusion
- imagination
- imaginativeness
- inclination
- invention
- itch
- mirage
- nightmare
- notion
- partiality
- penchant
- phantasm
- picture
- pie in the sky
- pipe dream
- predilection
- preference
- relish
- reverie
- romancing
- sweet tooth
- vision
- yearning
- yen
- action
- affection
- appreciation
- ardor
- behavior
- capacity
- compassion
- concern
- cultivation
- culture
- delicacy
- discernment
- discrimination
- emotion
- empathy
- faculty
- fervor
- fondness
- heat
- imagination
- impression
- intelligence
- intensity
- intuition
- judgment
- keenness
- palpability
- passion
- pathos
- pity
- reaction
- refinement
- sensibility
- sensitivity
- sentiment
- sentimentality
- sharpness
- spirit
- sympathy
- tangibility
- taste
- tenderness
- understanding
- warmth
- accord
- acquaintanceship
- affection
- affinity
- agreement
- alliance
- amiability
- amicability
- amity
- association
- attachment
- attraction
- benevolence
- closeness
- coalition
- comity
- company
- concord
- consideration
- consonance
- devotion
- empathy
- esteem
- familiarity
- favor
- favoritism
- fondness
- friendliness
- fusion
- good will
- harmony
- intimacy
- league
- love
- pact
- partiality
- rapport
- regard
- sociability
- society
- sodality
- solidarity
- understanding
- accords
- acquaintanceships
- affections
- affinities
- agreements
- alliances
- amiability
- amicability
- amity
- associations
- attachments
- attractions
- benevolence
- closeness
- coalitions
- comities
- companies
- concords
- considerations
- consonance
- devotions
- empathy
- esteem
- familiarities
- favoritism
- favors
- fondness
- friendliness
- fusions
- good wills
- harmonies
- intimacies
- leagues
- loves
- pacts
- partiality
- rapport
- regard
- sociabilities
- societies
- sodalities
- solidarities
- understandings
- affection
- appetite
- aptitude
- aptness
- attachment
- attraction
- bias
- capability
- capacity
- cup of tea
- desire
- disposition
- drift
- druthers
- fancy
- fondness
- groove
- idiosyncrasy
- impulse
- leaning
- liking
- mind
- movement
- partiality
- penchant
- persuasion
- pleasure
- predilection
- predisposition
- preference
- prejudice
- proclivity
- proneness
- propensity
- slant
- soft spot
- stomach
- susceptibility
- taste
- temperament
- thing
- trend
- turn
- type
- urge
- velleity
- weakness
- whim
- will
- wish
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