FromMiddle Englishfondnes,fondnesse,fonnednesse, equivalent tofond +-ness.
fondness (countable anduncountable,pluralfondnesses)
- The quality of beingfond:likingsomething,foolishness;dotingaffection;propensity.
1927-29,M.K. Gandhi, “Part I, Chapter xvii”, inThe Story of My Experiments with Truth[1], translated1940 byMahadev Desai:I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, thefondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.
the quality of being fond
- Bulgarian:нежност (bg) f(nežnost),привързаност (bg) f(privǎrzanost)
- Czech:záliba (cs) f,láska (cs) f,slabost (cs) f
- French:affection (fr) f
- German:Vorliebe (de) f
- Irish:caithis f,gile (ga) f
- Japanese:好き (ja)(すき suki),好み (ja)(このみ konomi),嗜好 (ja)(しこう shikō)
- Maori:kanehetanga
- Russian:не́жность (ru) f(néžnostʹ),любо́вь (ru) f(ljubóvʹ),привя́занность (ru) f(privjázannostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic:dèidh f
- Spanish:apego (es) m,querencia (es)
- Ukrainian:любо́в (uk)(ljubóv),ні́жність(nížnistʹ)
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