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

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

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

Page 2: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

predilection

pronunciationpronunciation::pred-l-ek-shuh

Page 3: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

synonymssynonyms::•Liking•Preference•Fancy•Inclination•Bias

Page 4: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

Predilection

Antonyms: Dislike

Hatred

Impartiality

Disinterest

Page 5: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

Ella has a predilection for wearing pink clothes.

Although Ian loves playing all musical instruments, he has a predilection for

playing the drums.

Page 6: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

“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

Page 7: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

“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

Page 8: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

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

Page 9: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

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

Page 10: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

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

Page 11: Predilection : noun Definition: A preference or special liking for something; a bias in favor of something.

The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.

- To Kill a Mockingbird