Associations to the word «Predilection»

Wiktionary

PREDILECTION, noun. Condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.

Dictionary definition

PREDILECTION, noun. A predisposition in favor of something; "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation".
PREDILECTION, noun. A strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature"; "the Irish have a penchant for blarney".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne