Crossword-Solution: FONDNESS 8 letters, 40 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Word Word Type Definition
Fondness n. The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.
Fondness n. Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite,
propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.

We have 40 clues for the answer “FONDNESS”

Clue Answers
a predisposition to like something 1 answer
BODY weakness 15 answers
soft spot 16 answers
Infatuation 26 answers
Proclivity 28 answers
Predilection 32 answers
seductiveness 32 answers
propinquity 34 answers
ionization 35 answers
Penchant 35 answers
ionisation 36 answers
closeness 37 answers
Propensity 41 answers
Warmth 41 answers
ADDUCTION 42 answers
Appetite 42 answers
Magnetism 42 answers
Emotion 43 answers
Eros 44 answers
charisma 44 answers
admiration 47 answers
Glamour 48 answers
Adoration 50 answers
Partiality 53 answers
Kinship 54 answers
attractiveness 54 answers
CALL to mind 54 answers
resemblance 55 answers
Obsession 55 answers
Thirst 56 answers
Devotion 61 answers
whim 62 answers
Liking 63 answers
Inducement 64 answers
Ambition 65 answers
Lust 65 answers
Affection 76 answers
Feeling 81 answers
Love 97 answers
Order 125 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NCORAE
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with FONDNESS (5)

Rather surprised to find them break fence at this season, yet putting it down instantly to their great fondness for ivy in winter-time, of which a great deal grew in the plantation, he followed through the hedge.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
This is one aspect of a more general fondness for form-versus-content language jokes that shows up particularly in hackish writing.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Besides punishment for missed cues, masters displayed considerable fondness for slaves who played their part well.
The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008
Knightley is the last man in the world, who would intentionally give any woman the idea of his feeling for her more than he really does.” Harriet seemed ready to worship her friend for a sentence so satisfactory; and Emma was only saved from raptures and fondness, which at that moment would have been dreadful penance, by the sound of her father’s footsteps.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994

Quotes with FONDNESS (3)

It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are living to a higher standard than those you judge. Enforcing rules, especially in its more subtle expressions like responsibility and expectation, is a vain attempt to create certainly out of uncertainty. And contrary to what you might think, I have a great fondness for uncertainty. Rules cannot bring freedom; they only have the power to accuse.
William Paul Young The Shack
A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.
Voltaire Candide
At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women
August Strindberg Madman's Defence
Where this answer appears

Appears in: LAT, Newsday, WSJ.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1998–2011).