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say it: FAHND-nuhs
fondness is a noun meaning "a predisposition to like something". It is pronounced /ˈfɑndnəs/ — FAHND-nuhs. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a predisposition to like something
“he had a fondness for whiskey”
“she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less”
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”
a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fondness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.