fondness

Possessives

father: I award her now the medal for total absorption, for being so forgetful of her father's fondness for hitting.

Converse of object

• retain: He retained an enduring fondness for the college that witnessed his development from a rebellious teenager to a professional mathematician.
• have: The Minister has a great fondness for Poland, which I know is shared by many in the Chamber.
• develop: He ends up sharing a condo with two homosexuals who develop quite a fondness for him.
• share: The Sambar, which shares a fondness for water with the Chital, congregate at the forest pools.
• grow: I have a real, real growing fondness for David and his relationship to actors.
• feel: She was fun to be with and I definitely felt the most fondness for her.

Preposition: for

• drink: He had made an attempt to reclaim his former rank but his fondness for drink let him down.
• music: He has a fondness for melancholy music you can't dance to.
• thing: I also have really suspect taste in hair accessories and have a strong fondness for sparkly things.
• product: Products to choose like sales agents a pots line fondness for product.
• animal: Likewise, a great deal is written about his fondness for animals, particularly dogs.
• work: March... Al proclaims a fondness for the work of Daniel Bedingfield.

Adjective modifier

• genuine: The cast members speak of the film with a genuine fondness.
• particular: She was spotted by Zeus, a god with a particular fondness for mortal women, on one of his many visits to earth.
• great: The Minister has a great fondness for Poland, which I know is shared by many in the Chamber.
• special: Jesus had a special fondness for those on the fringes of society.
• certain: I also have a certain fondness for the term pus which they use in Dundee.
• much: I'll remember him and the times we had on tour with much fondness.

Noun used with modifier

compatriot: The insurance salesman is not the only British Muslim who complains of social exclusion because of his compatriots fondness for drink.