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predilection

noun
/ˌpɹiː.dəˈlɛk.ʃn̩/UK/ˌpɹɛ.dəˈlɛk.ʃn̩/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin praedīlēctiō.

  1. borrowed from praedīlēctiō

Definitions

  1. A condition of favoring or liking

    A condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.

    • The young King looked tenderly at Mademoiselle Mancini, who gave him a glance quite as tender in return—not, however, unobserved. His mother had been for some time past a displeased spectator of a predilection which might become dangerous.
    • American operating practice aims at the minimum wastage of time by locomotives at water columns and coal stages, and this predilection for shunters with high capacity tenders is thereby explained.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at predilection. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at predilection. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at predilection

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA