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predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.
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predilection pronunciation: pred-l-ek-shuh
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synonyms: Liking Preference Fancy Inclination Bias
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Predilection Antonyms: Dislike Hatred Impartiality Disinterest
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Ella has a predilection for wearing pink clothes. Although Ian loves playing all musical instruments, he has a predilection for playing the drums.
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“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good.” Charlotte Brontë, Villette
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“The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante,[with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.’’ -Alexander Theroux
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Why should not such a predilection be encouraged? Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Last of The Mohicans
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His predilection for minding other people's business was time-honored among the people of Salem, and it undoubtedly created many of the suspicions which were to feed the coming madness. – The Crucible
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Marilla`s astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head. Montgomery, Lucy Maud -- Anne Of Green Gables
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The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. - To Kill a Mockingbird
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