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| Main Entry: | predilection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, preference toward something |
| Synonyms: | bent*, bias, cup of tea*, dish*, fancy, flash, fondness, groove, leaning, liking, love, partiality, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, taste*, tendency, thing*, type, weakness, druthers, inclining, mindset, proneness |
| Notes: | a propensity is a tendency while a predilection is a partiality - thus, a propensity (from Latin meaning 'hanging toward') is a behavioral predisposition whereas a predilection is a personal characteristic (from Latin meaning 'choose or love before others') |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, dislike, hate, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | affection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong fondness |
| Synonyms: | ardor, attachment, care, case*, closeness, concern, crush, desire, devotion, emotion, endearment, feeling, friendliness, friendship, good will, hankering*, heart, inclination, itch*, kindness, liking, love, passion, predilection, propensity, puppy love*, regard, sentiment, shine*, soft spot*, solicitude, tenderness, warmth, weakness*, yen*, amore |
| Antonyms: | animosity, antipathy, dislike, enmity, hate, hatred, ill will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination; talent |
| Synonyms: | ability, aim, aptitude, bag*, disposition, facility, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, knack, leaning, mind-set*, nose, penchant, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, propensity, set, tack, tendency, tilt, turn, druthers, head-set, inclining, thing for, weakness for |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fondness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking or taste for |
| Synonyms: | affection, attachment, devotion, fancy, kindness, love, partiality, penchant, predilection, preference, soft spot, susceptibility, tenderness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred, loathing |
| Main Entry: | leaning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tendency, bias |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, bent*, cup of tea*, disposition, drift, favor, favoritism, inclination, liking, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, sentiment, taste, thing, weakness, inclining, mindset, proneness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, taste |
| Synonyms: | affection, affinity, appetite, appreciation, attachment, attraction, bent, bias, desire, devotion, fancy, favoritism, inclination, love, mind, partiality, passion, penchant, pleasure, predilection, preference, propensity, relish, soft spot*, stomach, sympathy, tendency, tooth, weakness, will, palate, proneness, velleity |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | partiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favoritism, fondness |
| Synonyms: | affinity, bias, cup of tea*, dish, flash, inclination, leaning, liking, love, penchant, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency, thing*, type, weakness, druthers, inclining, partisanship |
| Antonyms: | fairness, impartiality, justice, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penchant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, inclination |
| Synonyms: | affection, affinity, attachment, bias, disposition, itch*, leaning, liking, partiality, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency, tilt*, turn*, weakness, yen, druthers, inclining, proneness |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred, indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predisposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | willingness, inclination |
| Synonyms: | bent*, bias, choice, cup of tea*, dish*, disposition, flash, groove, leaning, likelihood, liking, option, partiality, penchant, predilection, preference, proclivity, propensity, susceptibility, tendency, thing*, type, weakness, druthers, potentiality, proneness |
| Antonyms: | disinclination, unwillingness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | proclivity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, tendency |
| Synonyms: | bent*, bias, cup of tea*, disposition, facility, flash*, groove*, leaning, penchant, predilection, predisposition, propensity, type, weakness, druthers, inclining, liableness, proneness, thing for |
| Antonyms: | disinclination |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propensity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, weakness |
| Synonyms: | ability, bent*, bias, capacity, competence, disposition, flash, leaning, liability, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, susceptibility, sweet tooth*, talent, tendency, thing*, tilt*, yen, aptness, inclining, proneness |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, disinclination, dislike, hate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great appreciation of something |
| Synonyms: | appetite, bias, diversion, enjoyment, fancy, flair, flavor, fondness, gusto, heart, leaning, liking, love, loving, partiality, penchant, pleasure, predilection, prejudice, propensity, savor, smack, stomach, tang, taste, zest, delectation, enjoying, palate, sapidity, sapor |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | sentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotion, belief |
| Synonyms: | affect, attitude, bias, conception, conviction, disposition, eye, feeling, idea, inclination, judgment, leaning, mind, opinion, partiality, passion, penchant, persuasion, position, posture, predilection, propensity, sensibility, sentimentality, slant, tendency, tenderness, thought, view, affectivity, emotionalism, hearts and flowers, inclining, overemotionalism, romanticism, softheartedness, tender feeling, way of thinking |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel*, appetite*, blemish, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, failing, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, imperfection, impotence, inclination, indecision, infirmity, instability, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot*, taste*, vice, chink in armor, enervation, faintness, impairment, inconstancy, invalidity, irresolution, powerlessness, sore point, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aptitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination |
| Synonyms: | bent, disposition, drift, leaning, predilection, proclivity, propensity, tendency, proneness |
| Antonyms: | disinclination, inaptitude, skillessness |
| Main Entry: | attitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental outlook |
| Synonyms: | air, angle, approach, belief, bent, bias, character, demeanor, disposition, frame of mind, inclination, leaning, mental state, mood, notion, opinion, perspective, philosophy, point of view, position, posture, predilection, prejudice, proclivity, reaction, routine, sensibility, sentiment, set, slant, stance, stand, standing, standpoint, temper, temperament, twist, view, headset, like it is, mindset, mindtrip, say so, where one is at |
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in one way; partiality |
| Synonyms: | bent, bigotry, chauvinism, disposition, favoritism, flash, inclination, intolerance, leaning, mind-set*, penchant, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, spin, standpoint, tendency, tilt, turn, viewpoint, head-set, illiberality, mind trip, narrowmindedness, one-sidedness, prepossession, proneness, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, impartiality, justness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | want, longing |
| Synonyms: | admiration, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch*, lasciviousness, lechery, libido, liking, love, lust, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, rapture, relish, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning, rapaciousness, ravenousness, salacity |
| Antonyms: | aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, hate, hatred, repulsion |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal temperament |
| Synonyms: | bag*, being, bent, bias, cast, character, complexion, constitution, cup of tea*, flash, frame of mind, groove*, habit, humor, identity, inclination, individuality, leaning, mind-set*, mood, nature, penchant, personality, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, readiness, spirit, stamp, temper, tendency, tenor, thing*, tone, type, vein, druthers, emotions, individualism, make-up, proneness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faculty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, skill |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, bent, capability, capacity, cleverness, dexterity, facility, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, intelligence, knack, leaning, nose*, peculiarity, penchant, pistol*, power, predilection, proclivity, propensity, property, quality, readiness, reason, right stuff*, sense, strength, talent, turn, aptness, knowing way around, what it takes, wits |
| Antonyms: | inability, incompetence, lack, need, ineptness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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