Thesaurus:predilection
English
Noun
Sense: condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards
Synonyms
- affinity
- bag (idiomatic)
- bent
- cup of coffee (idiomatic)
- cup of joe (idiomatic)
- cup of tea (idiomatic)
- fancy
- liking
- partiality
- penchant
- predilection
- predisposition
- preference
- proclivity
- propension (rare)
- propensity
- shine [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
- taste [⇒ thesaurus]
- thing (informal)
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
Various
- druthers (usually plural)
Further reading
- “820. affections” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “865. desire” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “predilection” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.