Fondness

1. (n.) The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.

2. (n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.

Thesaurus Entries

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