Preference vs Prepossession - What's the difference?
preference | prepossession | Related terms |
The selection of one thing or person over others.
The option to so select, and the one selected.
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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.
Preoccupation; having possession beforehand.
A preconceived opinion, or previous impression; bias, prejudice.
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 386:
Preference is a related term of prepossession.
As nouns the difference between preference and prepossession
is that preference is preference while prepossession is preoccupation; having possession beforehand.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 ----prepossession
English
Noun
(en noun)- The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonise with its temporary intellectual prepossessions .
