Definition of "fondness" []

• Warm affection or liking. See Synonyms at love. (noun)
• A strong inclination or preference; a taste: a fondness for sweets; a fondness for travel. (noun)
• Archaic Naive trustfulness; credulity. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "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."
• "And when institutions in Japan announce their manga awards, my fondness is coupled with a serious spike in my covetous streak."
• "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."