a taste for something

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Liking
adorkable
affection
appreciate
approve of someone
attached
be a glutton for somethingidiom
dig
gravitate towards/to something/someone
grow on someone
hatefully
have a lot of time for someoneidiom
have a thing about something/someoneidiom
shook
smile
smile on something/someone
smitten
soft corner
taste
tight
warm

predilection | American Dictionary

predilection
noun[ C ]
us/ˌpred·əlˈek·ʃən, ˌprid-/
a strong liking or preference:
a predilection for spicy foods

Examples of predilection

predilection
It also requires us to revisit our approaches to childrearing when the child begins to demonstrate predilections or abilities in particular directions.
Naturally, his decision reflects political and other considerations including personal biases and predilections.
This elite combined scientific interests with antiquarian predilection for collecting specimens and objects.
The present results on predilection sites in naturally infected horses are comparable to those of other studies of experimentally infected animals.
On the other hand, there is live music, often derived from rock, with its predilection for stage performance.
By the same token, however, one may argue that his predilection for advocacy stands in the way of more objective analysis.
Muddling through this century, however, we find that the 'conservation ethic' has often been eclipsed by a predilection for fancy 'conservation tools'.
Given his predilection for conceptual antinomies, which may itself be questioned, his style is polemical, interspersed with judicious judgements and much good, common sense.
This work often starts with a recognizable type or types but then proceeds through design into a formalism specific to the site and personal predilection.
Sometimes reformist agendas or literary canons too were not clear-cut, and had fluctuating predilections.
Even the "pure descriptivist" has a dogmatic predilection against making judgments.
The predilection for some races, particularly those with broad facies has lead to the suggestion that differences in face shape are important.
If so, are pupils now more creative as a result of this modern predilection for 'creativity'?
More sophisticated interpretations of narrative can allow individual, internalised and idiosyncratic predilections to take their place in a wider field of investigation.
These 2 filarioid nematodes differ significantly in their transmission and predilection site in the host, and in the diseases they cause.
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