0 If someone has a predilection for something, they like it a lot:
1 a strong liking or preference:
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.