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fondness

English

Etymology

From Middle English fondnes, fondnesse, fonnednesse, equivalent to fond +? -ness.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?f?ndn?s/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f?ndn?s/
  • Hyphenation: fond?ness

Noun

fondness (countable and uncountable, plural fondnesses)

  1. The quality of being fond: liking something, foolishness; doting affection; propensity.
    • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:
      I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.

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aptitude

English

Etymology

Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (apt, fit). Doublet of attitude.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?æpt??tju?d/

Noun

aptitude (countable and uncountable, plural aptitudes)

  1. Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
    Synonyms: talent, knack; see also Thesaurus:skill
  2. The condition of being suitable.
    Synonyms: appropriateness, suitability

Translations

Further reading

  • aptitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • aptitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin aptit?d?.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ap.ti.tyd/

Noun

aptitude f (plural aptitudes)

  1. aptitude

Related terms

  • apte

Further reading

  • “aptitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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