different between greediness vs fondness

English

Etymology

From Middle English gredynesse, from Old English gr?di?nes; equivalent to greedy +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???i?din?s/

Noun

greediness (usually uncountable, plural greedinesses)

1. The state of being greedy; greed.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     Thereto the body of a dog she had, / Full of fell ravin and fierce greedinesse […]

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• See also Thesaurus:greed

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• Niger seeds, genderises

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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