Preference vs Tendency - What's the difference?
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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.
A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
As nouns the difference between preference and tendency
is that preference is the selection of one thing or person over others while tendency is a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.As a verb preference
is to give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.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 ----tendency
English
Noun
(tendencies)- Denim has a tendency to fade.
- a militant tendency