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Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

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1 predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

2 predilection pronunciation: pred-l-ek-shuh

3 synonyms: Liking Preference Fancy Inclination Bias

4 Predilection Antonyms: Dislike Hatred Impartiality Disinterest

5 Ella has a predilection for wearing pink clothes. Although Ian loves playing all musical instruments, he has a predilection for playing the drums.

6 “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

7 “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

8 Why should not such a predilection be encouraged? Cooper, James Fenimore -- The Last of The Mohicans

9 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

10 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

11  The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb. - To Kill a Mockingbird


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