Other forms: endearments
An endearment is a word or act showing affection. A term of endearment, murmured endearments, small endearments.
A term of endearment is the fixed phrase, and what counts as one differs sharply by place: love, duck and pet are ordinary from a stranger in parts of England and startling anywhere else.
1nounendearmentA word or act showing affection.
“She whispered endearments to the baby as she rocked him to sleep.”
endearment is a word.
From endear + -ment.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA