Penchant \Pen`chant"\, n. [F., fr. pencher to bend, fr.
(assumed) LL. pendicare, L. pendere. See Pendant.]
Inclination; decided taste; bias; as, a penchant for art.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Penchant \Pen`chant"\, n. (Card Playing)
A game like b['e]zique, or, in the game, any queen and jack
of different suits held together.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
penchant
n : a strong liking; "my own preference is for good literature";
"the Irish have a penchant for blarney" [syn: preference,
predilection, taste]
WordNet (r) 2.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "penchant":
a thing for, affinity, aptitude, aptness, bent, bias, cast,
conatus, conduciveness, delight, diathesis, disposition, eagerness,
fancy, fascination, favor, feeling for, fondness, inclination,
inclining, leaning, liability, liking, mutual affinity,
mutual attraction, partiality, predilection, predisposition,
preference, prejudice, probability, proclivity, proneness,
propensity, readiness, sensitivity to, soft spot, susceptibility,
sympathy, taste, tendency, tropism, turn, twist, warp, weakness,
willingness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
predilection, preference, taste
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