Thesaurus / predilection
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Before that, she was a biology student with a predilection for fungi, and before that a jungle-trained member of the Air Force.
SHARON MATOLA, DEVOTED ZOOKEEPER AND CONSERVATIONIST, DIES AT 66EMILY LANGERMARCH 31, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The Bush women were not destined to break the mold — only to maintain it and shape it ever so gently with their own style, personality and predilections.
FOR THREE GENERATIONS OF BUSH WOMEN, PERSONAL PAIN AND A PUBLIC SPOTLIGHTJANE EISNERMARCH 19, 2021WASHINGTON POST
“You followed that precedent, and you did so as a jurist rather than following whatever personal predilection might have otherwise guided you or any other member of the panel,” Lee said.
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Some of them might have a predilection for Germany; but such predilections were subordinate to a stronger feeling.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
With his usual predilection for fruit, Phil went off and picked a quart of marsh-berries.
GOLD-SEEKING ON THE DALTON TRAILARTHUR R. THOMPSON
The simple unexaggerated truth is that Chopin had always a predilection for, and felt more at home among, his compatriots.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKS
Liszt gives us all the desirable information as to Chopin's predilection in this respect.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKS
Chopin's predilection for the fashionable salon society led him to neglect the society of artists.
FREDERICK CHOPIN AS A MAN AND MUSICIANFREDERICK NIECKS
Sanatogen is a nerve and tissue food for which the brain, spinal cord and the nerves have a special predilection.
The predilection for them has become so universal that now everything is to be done la Grecque.
THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHER
WORDS RELATED TO PREDILECTION
- affect
- affectivity
- attitude
- bias
- conception
- conviction
- disposition
- emotionalism
- eye
- feeling
- hearts and flowers
- idea
- inclination
- judgment
- leaning
- mind
- opinion
- overemotionalism
- partiality
- passion
- penchant
- persuasion
- position
- posture
- predilection
- propensity
- romanticism
- sensibility
- sentimentality
- slant
- softheartedness
- tendency
- tender feeling
- tenderness
- thought
- view
- way of thinking
- affect
- affectivity
- attitude
- bias
- conception
- conviction
- disposition
- emotionalism
- eye
- feeling
- hearts and flowers
- idea
- inclination
- judgment
- leaning
- mind
- opinion
- overemotionalism
- partiality
- passion
- penchant
- persuasion
- position
- posture
- predilection
- propensity
- romanticism
- sensibility
- sentimentality
- slant
- softheartedness
- tendency
- tender feeling
- tenderness
- thought
- view
- way of thinking
- bent
- bigotry
- chauvinism
- disposition
- favoritism
- flash
- head-set
- illiberality
- inclination
- intolerance
- leaning
- mind trip
- mind-set
- narrowmindedness
- one-sidedness
- partiality
- partisanship
- penchant
- preconception
- predilection
- predisposition
- preference
- prejudice
- prepossession
- proclivity
- proneness
- propensity
- spin
- standpoint
- tendency
- tilt
- turn
- unfairness
- viewpoint
- Achilles heel
- appetite
- blemish
- chink in armor
- debility
- decrepitude
- deficiency
- delicacy
- enervation
- failing
- faintness
- fault
- feebleness
- flaw
- foible
- fondness
- fragility
- frailty
- gap
- impairment
- imperfection
- impotence
- inclination
- inconstancy
- indecision
- infirmity
- instability
- invalidity
- irresolution
- lack
- languor
- lapse
- liking
- passion
- penchant
- powerlessness
- predilection
- proclivity
- prostration
- senility
- shortcoming
- soft spot
- sore point
- taste
- vice
- vitiation
- vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- appetite
- blemish
- chink in armor
- debility
- decrepitude
- deficiency
- delicacy
- enervation
- failing
- faintness
- fault
- feebleness
- flaw
- fondness
- fragility
- frailty
- gap
- impairment
- imperfection
- impotence
- inclination
- inconstancy
- indecision
- infirmity
- instability
- invalidity
- irresolution
- lack
- languor
- lapse
- liking
- passion
- penchant
- powerlessness
- predilection
- proclivity
- prostration
- senility
- shortcoming
- soft spot
- sore point
- taste
- vice
- vitiation
- vulnerability
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