This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience. Learn more

Another word for predilection

Noun

  1. An inclination to something

    2. See also:

    like

    approach

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for predilection

Noun
    2. See also:

    prejudice

    inclination

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He showed a predilection for poetry.

  • He displayed an early predilection for zoology and ornithology, and in later life became a skilled and enthusiastic collector, particularly of African plants and birds.

  • The student had a predilection for some subjects and against others.

  • The junkie had a predilection for the more illicit things in life.

  • In addition, primary skin tumors such as melanoma have a predilection to spread to the liver.

More sentences →

Words near predilection in the Thesaurus