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n. a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home"

leaning

n. the act of deviating from a vertical position

leaning, propensity, tendency

n. an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"

desire

n. the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state

passion, passionateness

n. a strong feeling or emotion

wish, wishing, want

n. a specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire"

hope

n. the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled; "in spite of his troubles he never gave up hope"

ambition, aspiration, dream

n. a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business"

vagary

n. an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.); "the vagaries of the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for many years"

pleasure, pleasance

n. a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"

satisfaction

n. the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation; "the chef tasted the sauce with great satisfaction"

volition, will

n. the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith

reverie, revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, air castle, castle in the air, castle in Spain

n. absentminded dreaming while awake

vagary

notion

n. a general inclusive concept

notion, whim, whimsy, whimsey

n. an odd or fanciful or capricious idea; "the theatrical notion of disguise is associated with disaster in his stories"; "he had a whimsy about flying to the moon"; "whimsy can be humorous to someone with time to enjoy it"

love, enjoy

v. get pleasure from; "I love cooking"

prefer

v. like better; value more highly; "Some people prefer camping to staying in hotels"; "We prefer sleeping outside"

covet

v. wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person); "She covets her sister's house"

favor, favour

v. consider as the favorite; "The local team was favored"

love

v. have a great affection or liking for; "I love French food"; "She loves her boss and works hard for him"

admire, look up to

v. feel admiration for

idolize, idolise, worship, hero-worship, revere

v. love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; "Many teenagers idolized the Beatles"

flowery, ornate

adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

embellished, ornamented, ornate

adj. rich in decorative detail

cosmetic, decorative, ornamental

adj. serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose; "cosmetic fenders on cars"; "the buildings were utilitarian rather than decorative"

elegant

adj. refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid"

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dislike

n. a feeling of aversion or antipathy; "my dislike of him was instinctive"

antipathy, aversion, distaste

n. a feeling of intense dislike

plain

adj. not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"

simple

adj. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"

simple

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

mere, simple, bare

adj. unornamented; "a simple country schoolhouse"; "her black dress--simple to austerity"

common, vernacular, vulgar

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

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