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soft spot

DEFINITIONS OF: soft spot

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n a sentimental affection

“she had a soft spot for her youngest son”
Type of:
affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness
a positive feeling of liking

n a place of especial vulnerability

Synonyms:
weak part, weak spot
Antonyms:
good part
a place of especial strength
Types:
Achilles' heel
a seemingly small but actual mortal weakness
jugular
a vital part that is vulnerable to attack
underbelly
the quality of being weak or unprotected
Type of:
weakness
the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain

n any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus

Synonyms:
fontanel, fontanelle
Types:
anterior fontanelle
corresponds to the bregma when bones have ossified
sphenoid fontanel, sphenoid fontanelle, sphenoidal fontanel, sphenoidal fontanelle
the irregularly shaped area on either side of the cranium where the frontal bone and the anterior tip of the parietal bone and the temporal bone and the greater wing of the sphenoid bone meet; corresponds to the pterion when bones have ossified
Type of:
opening, orifice, porta
an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity
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