fondness

IPA: fˈɑndnʌs

The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.

Examples of "fondness" in Sentences

I felt a certain fondness for all these crazy, happy, hard-working, good people.
The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
I will say that I have a certain fondness for the idea of tossing everyone in Congress in jail on a giant RICO prosecution.
And when institutions in Japan announce their manga awards, my fondness is coupled with a serious spike in my covetous streak.
To those who remember this series with a certain fondness, I'd like to play a game: it's called 'pretend Saw VII never happened'.
Not but what I know ladies of a certain description often have birds, but then their fondness is all affectation and fashion; but this poor thing was all nature.
It is no surprise, really, that even "moderate" conservatives have a certain fondness for Franco, who, after his victory, proceeded to execute 200,000 Spaniards who did not share his conservative values.
The novelist Mark Winegardner, a veteran of the retreat circuit (he calls Yaddo his "go-to colony"), looks back with a certain fondness on the pre-Internet days, though he acknowledged the "anxiety and friction" among artists as they lined up after dinner to use payphones.