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fondness

/fond-nis/US // ˈfɒnd nɪs //

癖好,喜爱,恋情,喜好

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being fond.
    • : tenderness or affection.
    • : doting affection.
    • : a liking or weakness for something: He has a fondness for sweets.
    • : Archaic. complacent credulity; foolishness.

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Examples

  • Miss Manners’ fondness for handwritten letters is not merely due to her liking the smell of paper and ink.

  • Street vendors are ubiquitous on the city’s landscape, but New Yorkers have a particular fondness for the Christmas tree migrants.

  • Take, for example, our mongrel Mitty, whose fondness for chasing sticks was obsessive.

  • When it comes to you, she is hampered by a mix of fondness and condescension.

  • The 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.

  • He's watching it because of his fondness for Bergman and because, he says, “She'll be nervous about my opinion.”

  • Among Republicans, this disappointment has translated into what looks like a renewed fondness for interventionism.

  • Over the years I developed a special fondness for almost everyone I met there.

  • Another memory I have of youthful fondness for the beach concerns tiny bikinis.

  • I have a fuzzy memory of fondness for the beach when I was young.

  • This judicial bent of the child is a curious one and often develops a priggish fondness for setting others morally straight.

  • This had flattered his pride and his fondness for all dumb creatures had made them dear to him beyond his own belief.

  • Here we saw many types of the Yorkshire man, famed for his shrewdness and fondness for what we would call "dickering."

  • Meggy had her ride, and in the days that followed she had many others and the girl's fondness for Betty became almost worship.

  • In fact, the object of her fondness was Spencer Cowper, who was already married.