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soft spot
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun soft spot has 3 senses
- soft spot(n = noun.attribute) weak part, weak spot - a place of especial vulnerability; Array is a kind of weakness
- soft spot(n = noun.feeling) Array - a sentimental affection; "she had a soft spot for her youngest son" is a kind of affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness
- soft spot(n = noun.body) fontanel, fontanelle - any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus; Array is a part of child's body, braincase, brainpan, cranium
has particulars: achilles' heel, jugular, underbelly
is a kind of opening, orifice, porta
has particulars: anterior fontanelle, sphenoid fontanel, sphenoid fontanelle, sphenoidal fontanel, sphenoidal fontanelle
THESAURUS
soft spot
a thing for, affinity, aptitude, aptness, assailability, bent, bias, cast, chink, conatus, conduciveness, delight, diathesis, disposition, eagerness, exposed nerve, feeling for, fondness, heel of Achilles, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, loophole, nerve ending, penchant, penetrability, predilection, predisposition, pregnability, prejudice, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, raw, raw nerve, readiness, sensitivity to, sore point, sore spot, susceptibility, taste, tendency, tender spot, the quick, tropism, turn, twist, vincibility, vulnerability, vulnerable point, warp, weak link, weak point, weakness, willingness
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