Fancy
Fancy noun - Positive regard for something.
Usage example: now that he's rich he's taken a fancy to expensive sports cars
Love is a synonym for fancy in preference topic. In some cases you can use "Love" instead the word "Fancy" as a noun or a verb.
Love
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| complete | complete fancy | complete love |
| romantic | romantic fancy | romantic love |
| big | big fancy | big love |
| little | little fancy | little love |
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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While Phillippe does fancy her, Christian is in love with Jacqueline Noiret, a typist.
Source: Love Dodecahedron - In Anthony Trollope's Ayala's Angel, the title character is beloved by Tom Tringle, Johnathan Stubbs, and Captain Batsby, but Batsby also takes a fancy to Tom's sister Gertrude, who wants to marry Frank Houston, who is in love with his cousin Imogen Docimer.
Source: Love Dodecahedron / Literature -
Oh, what a fool she had been not to realize what the bond was that had held her to Gilbert—to think that the flattered fancy she had felt for Roy Gardner had been love.
Source: Love Epiphany
Cite this Source
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