Proclivity vs Preference - What's the difference?
proclivity | preference |
A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially refers to a strong disposition or bent.
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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.
As nouns the difference between proclivity and preference
is that proclivity is a predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially refers to a strong disposition or bent while preference is the selection of one thing or person over others.As a verb preference is
to give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.proclivity
English
Noun
(proclivities)- This therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute man who now addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as Lord John Corley.
Synonyms
* propensitypreference
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(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.}}
