different between fondness vs ardour

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.

Translations

English

Noun

ardour (countable and uncountable, plural ardours)

1. Britain, Canada, and Australia spelling of ardor
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.

Translations

Old French

Noun

ardour f (oblique plural ardours, nominative singular ardour, nominative plural ardours)

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of ardur

   toun ardour et l’estudie de aprendre […] deit estre provee