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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FOND'NESS, n.
1. Foolishness; weakness; want of sense or judgment. Obs.
2. Foolish tenderness.
3. Tender passion; warm affection.
Her fondness for a certain earl began when I was but a girl.
4. Strong inclination or propensity; as a fondness for vice or sin.
5. Strong appetite or relish; as fondness for ardent spirit, or for a particular kind of food.
[It is now used chiefly in the three latter senses.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey" [syn: fondness, fancy, partiality]
2: 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" [syn: affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia]
3: a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love [syn: affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. obsolete foolishness, folly 2. tender affection 3. appetite, relish <had a fondness for argument>

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fondness Fond"ness, n. 1. The quality or state of being fond; foolishness. [Obs.] 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see fond

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Folly, silliness, delusion, weakness, absurdity. 2. Foolish love, childish affection, excessive tenderness, doting. 3. Liking, partiality, predilection, preference, warm love, strong affection. 4. Relish, liking, appetite.

Moby Thesaurus

Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor, attachment, blind faith, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, credulity, credulousness, crush, delicacy, desire, devotion, disposition to believe, dotage, ease of belief, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, free love, free-lovism, gentleness, gross credulity, gust, gusto, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, inclination, infatuation, lasciviousness, libido, like, likes, liking, love, lovemaking, married love, overcredulity, overcredulousness, overopenness to conviction, overtrustfulness, partiality, passion, physical love, popular regard, popularity, predilection, rash conviction, regard, relish, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, soft spot, softheartedness, softness, spiritual love, taste, tender feeling, tender passion, tenderheartedness, tenderness, truelove, trustfulness, uncritical acceptance, uncriticalness, unquestioning belief, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness, unsuspectingness, unsuspiciousness, uxoriousness, warm heart, warmheartedness, weakness, will to believe, willingness to believe, wishful belief, wishful thinking, worship, yearning