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

predilection

pronunciationpronunciation::pred-l-ek-shuh

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

Predilection

Antonyms: Dislike

Hatred

Impartiality

Disinterest

Ella has a predilection for wearing pink clothes.

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

playing the drums.

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

- To Kill a Mockingbird