Preference vs Disposition - What's the difference?
preference | disposition | Related terms |
The selection of one thing or person over others.
The option to so select, and the one selected.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The state of being preferred over others.
A strong liking or personal valuation.
A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
(US) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
The arrangement or placement of certain things.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
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Control over something.
(label) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
(label) Final decision or settlement.
(label) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
(label) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
Preference is a related term of disposition.
As nouns the difference between preference and disposition
is that preference is preference while disposition is disposal.preference
English
(wikipedia preference)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(Preferans) (en noun)Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.}}
Verb
(preferenc)See also
* preferences ----disposition
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- He was, indeed, a lad of a remarkable disposition ; sober, discreet, and pious beyond his age...
