warm fuzzy

warm fuzzy

1. A highly sentimental, reassuring, and comforting emotional response. If all you want out of a relationship is a constant source of warm fuzzies, then you are going to have a hard time finding meaningful, long-term connections with people.
2. A thing or situation that provokes or evokes such an emotional response. Toys that people grow up with tend to become sort of warm fuzzies for them later in life.
See also: fuzzy, warm
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • warm and fuzzy
  • bump fuzzies
  • bumping fuzzies
  • fuzzy
  • coping skill
  • moonlight and roses
  • reminisce
  • reminisce about
  • reminisce about (someone or something)
  • reminisce with
References in periodicals archive
You can cut this Warm Fuzzy out and use as as pattern if you like.
After reading the story, we had a class discussion about the meaning of the "warm fuzzy." The discussion centered on the word respect.
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Perhaps this warm fuzzy feeling actually will last past April, but we should not be too hasty with projections.
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By answering consumers' questions about tax, personal financial planning and small business, you can get positive publicity and that warm fuzzy feeling from helping someone.
At the end of the month, the only thing a mill will see is a bottom line charge for AQ and a possible warm fuzzy feeling that they may have produced a bit more pulp this month ...
The reader cheers for the lovebirds only to have the warm fuzzy feeling snatched away.
Whether you enjoy that warm fuzzy feeling of nostalgia of desire a "contemporary look at the classics," RetroHome's Web site is designed to be fun, functional and enlightening.
Neil Sexton may be busily developing a web-based storefront for his latest company, but that doesn't mean he thinks the Internet is the end of warm fuzzy service as we know it." If anything he's trying to blend high-tech and "hightouch" Or maybe, he's trying to recreate the feel of his grandfather's grocery store, but online.
Sinking in an ocean of warm fuzzy rhetoric, Reno managed to evoke the Gonzalez reunion as a model for a great American joining of hearts.
Then, in the last paragraph, throw in a warm fuzzy about "building for the future."
As hard as it may be to believe, there is possibly rooted in distant reality an explanation of why warm fuzzy office visits with significant cerebral input have never commanded fees commensurate with invasive, capital-intensive, institutionally subsidized procedures that do things like restore eyesight, relieve angina pectoris, or repair traumatic damage.
As a population, for years we had this warm fuzzy feeling that our big brother, the EU, would be there to look after us.
" If they are telling people about their business in compelling terms that drives engagement - in a nutshell, if they are giving their customers a warm fuzzy goosebumps feeling - then the business is on the right track to success."