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Meaning of "overfondness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF OVERFONDNESS

ˌəʊvəˈfɒndnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERFONDNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overfondness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OVERFONDNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overfondness in the English dictionary

The definition of overfondness in the dictionary is excessive affection.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERFONDNESS

blondeness · blondness · boundedness · boundness · determinedness · grandness · impassionedness · ingrainedness · jocundness · overkindness · purblindness · refinedness · resignedness · restrainedness · rotundness · self-containedness · unconcernedness · unconditionedness · unseasonedness · unsoundness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERFONDNESS

overflowing · overflowingly · overflown · overflush · overfly · overfocus · overfocussed · overfold · overfond · overfondly · overforward · overforwardness · overfoul · overfrank · overfraught · overfree · overfreedom · overfreely · overfreight · overfulfill

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERFONDNESS

awkwardness · baldness · blindness · boldness · business · fondness · goodness · hardness · indebtedness · kindness · loudness · madness · mindedness · oddness · preparedness · redness · sadness · soundness · tiredness · weirdness · wickedness

Synonyms and antonyms of overfondness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overfondness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERFONDNESS

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The translations of overfondness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overfondness» in English.
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380 millions of speakers
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270 millions of speakers
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260 millions of speakers
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220 millions of speakers
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130 millions of speakers
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Overfondness
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80 millions of speakers
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75 millions of speakers
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अतिप्रमाणात
75 millions of speakers
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overfondness
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Trends of use of overfondness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERFONDNESS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overfondness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERFONDNESS»

Discover the use of overfondness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overfondness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Industry of Devotion: The Transformation of Women's Work in ...
The English believed great parental affection was natural, and both laity and clergy traditionally worried lest parental fondness turn into an overfondness, breeding spoiled children and undisciplined adults.103 Loving parents were believed to ...
Susan Cahn, 2013
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Cognitive and Instructional Processes in History and the ...
TABLE 12.2 Ted's Interpretation of Document 3 Text Protocol One, whose offense for which he had been sold was an overfondness for his wife, played the fiddle almost continually I was having trouble with that sentencewhose offense for ...
Mario Carretero, James F. Voss, 2012
3
History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century
Overfondness for ourselves, like overfondness for children, may defeat its own object. Taking Butler's psychology, the assertion is doubtful ; for the injury to our happiness would seem to result not from the excessive strength of the passion, but ...
Leslie Stephen, 2011
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Freemason's Magazine, Or General and Complete Library
ON THE OVERFONDNESS OF PARENTS. it is with us. If we drink excessively, we not only find our bodies heavy and languid, but we can scracely breathe, much less express ourselves intelligibly ; whereas, let us drink our wine, to use a  ...
‎1796
5
Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase
Hot on the trail of solving the mystery of the missing person and stolen statue, Detective Donut has to make a crucial decision to either stay with the case or make a detour to the donut shop to get a favorite treat. Reprint. PW. SLJ.
‎1999
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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in ...
Salon founder David Talbot chronicles the cultural history of San Francisco and from the late 1960s to the early 1980s when figures such as Harvey Milk, Janis Joplin, Jim Jones, and Bill Walsh helped usher from backwater city to thriving ...
David Talbot, 2012
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Record of Christian Work
3)- He grew up a beautiful young man to look upon, but with not the faintest evidence that David spoiled him with overfondness. As the lesson, and the story of his revenge upon Amnon in the matter of Tamar shows, he was crafty, patient, brave ...
Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt, 1903
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The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including ...
The reasons she gives, and gave him, were, the badness of his temper and imperiousness of his letters ; that he scolded her for the overfondness of her epistles, and was even so unsentimental as to talk of desiring to make her happy, instead ...
Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron), 1840
9
FDR, Dewey, and the Election of 1944
Of Miller, it was said “that he has been guilty of political stupidity, brought on by overfondness for publicity.” Many Americans wrote letters to MacArthur critical of his political involvement, and editorials around the country echoed that view.
David M. Jordan, 2011
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The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the ...
Furthermore, as Santayana says, "the normal, too, is pathological when it is not referred to the ideal." Although it may be tonic for us to recall Foucault's strictures against an overfondness for the author's personality, it is neither helpful nor true ...
Mary Kinzie, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERFONDNESS»

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Too Much 'Word,' Not Enough 'Nerd' In This Scrabble Story
His tone is conversational, punctuated by "Oh yeahs" and an overfondness for acronyms — including NSA — not for the National Security ... «WDIY, Jun 15»
2
Declassified MI5 files reveal why Operation Seagull failed to take flight
He also judged the Irishman to possess above average intelligence, but felt that 'his weakness was an overfondness for drink'. "While he was ... «Herald Scotland, May 15»
3
The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet is about children, not for them …
While T.S. is clearly a boy genius who takes after mom, Layton is rough and outdoorsy like his dad, whose overfondness for guns has deadly ... «Toronto Star, Apr 15»
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A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler, review: 'far from cosy'
... some maintain that this sympathy can often curdle into overfondness and sentimentality. Tyler's characters, they argue, are too fundamentally ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
5
Handsome returns
One day, when I quizzed him over his overfondness for one particular restaurant — which, alas, closed down two years ago — he explained the ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Nov 14»
6
Arrivals: Memoirs
... through clever musings on show biz, his overfondness for cocaine, his diagnosis of cyclothymia (a type of bipolar disorder) and more. «Toronto Star, Oct 14»
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Michael Simkins: I've got a cure for Kim Jong-un's Emmental cheese …
But the most popular explanation, it seems, was gout, brought on by an overfondness for Emmental cheese, a taste he acquired during his ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
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Theater Review: How Much Can Mia Farrow and Brian Dennehy Get …
Gurney has an overfondness for structural tricks; another is currently on view in The Wayside Motor Inn at the Signature. But in Love Letters, ... «Vulture, Sep 14»
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'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' rises over box-office doldrums
This is why the film, despite its bloat and its overfondness for scenes of massacre, feels as if it were made by actual humans. Two other things ... «WSB Atlanta, Jul 14»
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes review
This is why the film, despite its bloat and its overfondness for scenes of massacre, feels as if it were made by actual humans. Two other things ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 14»
REFERENCE
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