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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, taste |
| Synonyms: | affection, affinity, appetite, appreciation, attachment, attraction, bent, bias, desire, devotion, fancy, favoritism, inclination, love, mind, palate, partiality, passion, penchant, pleasure, predilection, preference, proneness, propensity, relish, soft spot, stomach, sympathy, tendency, tooth, velleity, weakness, will |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
| Synonyms: | amore, ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen* |
| Antonyms: | animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | appetite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire for food, worldly goods |
| Synonyms: | appetence, appetency, appetition, big eyes, craving, demand, fondness, gluttony, greed, hankering, hunger, inclination, itch, liking, longing, lust, passion, penchant, proclivity, propensity, ravenousness, relish, soft spot, stomach, sweet tooth, taste, thirst, urge, voracity, weakness, willingness, yearning, yen, zeal, zest |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hatred, indifference, loathing, repulsion, revulsion |
| Main Entry: | appreciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition of worth |
| Synonyms: | admiration, aesthetic sense, affection, appraisal, assessment, attraction, awareness, cognizance, commendation, comprehension, enjoyment, esteem, estimation, grasp, high regard, knowledge, liking, love, perception, realization, recognition, regard, relish, respect, responsivenesss, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, valuation |
| Main Entry: | approval |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good opinion |
| Synonyms: | PR, acclaim, admiration, applause, appreciation, approbation, commendation, esteem, favor, liking, pat on the back, pat on the head, praise, puff, pumping up, regard, respect, strokes, stroking, wow* |
| Antonyms: | disapproval, disfavor, dislike, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | attachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affection, high regard |
| Synonyms: | affinity, amore, attraction, bond, case, crush, devotion, fidelity, fondness, friendship, hankering*, liking, love, loyalty, partiality, possessiveness, regard, shine*, tenderness, weakness, yen* |
| Antonyms: | alienation, animosity, aversion, dislike, divorce, enmity, estrangement, hate, hatred, opposition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, longing |
| Synonyms: | admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
| Antonyms: | aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impulse, urge |
| Synonyms: | caprice, conceit, conception, contrariness, creation, cup of tea, desire, druthers, flash, fool's paradise, groove*, humor, idea, image, imagination, impression, inclination, irrationality, liking, mind, notion, perverseness, pleasure, thing*, thought, vagary, velleity, visualization, weakness for, whim, will |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gusto |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | appetite, appreciation, ardor, brio, delectation, delight, enjoyment, exhilaration, fervor, heart, liking, palate, passion, pleasure, relish, savor, taste, verve, zeal, zest |
| Antonyms: | apathy, reluctance, unenthusiasm |
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