predilection

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Engineers seem to have a certain predilection to talk over people.

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Quick take

a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

noun

a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for predilection.

noun

a predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"

noun

a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney"

Example sentences

Engineers seem to have a certain predilection to talk over people.

We cannot judge the pot dealer or the LSD buyer any more than they can judge our habits and predilections.

As an observer of many types of organizations of people, the predilection to spin is endemic.

I think that would do a lot to counter our unconscious predilection to look favorably on people just like us and harshly on people who aren't

Headlines of tomorrow: "Paedophile entrapment bot first in history to pass Turing test"Future AIs will have a predilection for Bieber and meeting with strangers.

I've had something of an unfortunate predilection toward small, low-power, general purpose Linux boxen.

It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger's predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all. Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two.

I don't want to label this subset of people because I will not do it correctly, but I believe it is assured that a predilection for CLI invokes precisely some sort of human artifact that is aligned with being a geek.

"Could it be, we wonder, that cancers predilection for a hypoxic environment reflects the prevailing conditions on Earth at the time when multicellularity first evolved, before the second great oxygenation event?

There are lots of other issues with the search results in recent times, such as the predilection to give me 10 results all from the exact same website, but I drilled down on the technical issues because frankly the search results are still better on Google than their competitors.