inclinations

nountendency, bent
nounslant, angle

Synonyms for inclinations

noun tendency, bent

Antonyms for inclinations

Word Origin & History

"condition of being mentally disposed" (to do something), late 14c., from Middle French inclination (14c.) and directly from Latin inclinationem (nominative inclinatio) "a leaning, bending," figuratively "tendency, bias, favor," noun of action from past participle stem of inclinare (see incline). Meaning "action of bending toward" (something) is from early 15c. That of "amount of a slope" is from 1799.

Example Sentences for inclinations

If I am capable of judging, our tempers and inclinations are vastly different.

She had held her inclinations in check with severe judgment.

It was barely possible that it might be required to please her inclinations.

No consideration can induce me to marry against my inclinations.

Rarely did he give things a second thought where his inclinations were concerned.

To do what the superior power requires of him, he must thwart his inclinations.

Her abode at Court had diverted but not altered her inclinations.

It was not I, therefore, who was the author of this, but your own inclinations to war.

It would never have sorted with my inclinations to have turned man-at-arms.

What to him are my feelings, my inclinations, my affections?