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preference (a predisposition in favor of something); or tendency (normal behavior)- The group has an unfortunate predilection for fighting, drinking, and drug use.
predilection = preference or tendency
- She has a predilection for sticking her nose into other people's business.
- a predilection for expensive cars
- Langdon rolled his eyes at Sophie, well accustomed to Teabing's predilection for dramatic antics.Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
- He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- She had the air of a game warden pointing out an animal in the grass. Taking pride in her ability to predict its movements. Her superior knowledge of its habits and predilections.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- Marilla's astonishment could not have been greater if Matthew had expressed a predilection for standing on his head.Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
- This 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.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- It was a predilection of their genetics.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- ...her predilection for a special window at which she always sat in the early evening,Albert Camus -- The Plague
- To be right and throw it away in order to please the predilections of his teachers, that would be the monstrosity!Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Obviously the Andromeda Strain showed a predilection for cerebral vasculature.Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
- the only vestiges left in Mr. L. Prosser of his mighty ancestry were a pronounced stoutness about the tum and a predilection for little fur hats.Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- To please her, as if she were still living, he adopted her predilections, her ideas; he bought patent leather boots and took to wearing white cravats.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- Why should not such a predilection be encouraged!James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans
- Sadly, neither economic development nor the rise of education and a middle class seems to have affected the predilection for aborting female fetuses.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- Clyde uttered the names of people dancing past and Edgar commented on their lives and careers and personal predilections.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- Every one of them imagined the scene, each according to his own predilections—Sula underneath some white man—and it filled them with choking disgust.Toni Morrison -- Sula
- He laid out all of Seabiscuit's predilections and weaknesses in great detail.Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
predilection = preference or tendency
predilection = tendency or preference (a predisposition in favor of something)
predilection = preference or tendency
predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
predilection = preference or tendency
predilection = preference
predilection = tendency (a predisposition in favor of something)
predilection = preference or tendency
predilections = preferences (predispositions in favor of something)
predilection = preference or tendency
predilection = preference or tendency
predilection = preference or tendency