Synonyms of the word preference


PREFERENCEADVANTAGE - ALTERNATIVE - CHOICE - DRUTHERS - LIKING - OPTION - ORIENTATION - PENCHANT - PREDILECTION - PREDISPOSITION - TASTE - VANTAGE

preference

  • n. The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to…
  • n. The option to so select, and the one selected.
  • n. The state of being preferred over others.
  • n. A strong liking or personal valuation.
  • n. A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
  • v. (US) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
  • n. Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.

advantage

  • n. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to…
  • n. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other…
  • n. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit.
  • n. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
  • n. (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team…
  • n. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
  • v. (transitive) To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
  • v. (reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.

alternative

  • adj. Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
  • adj. Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle,…
  • adj. Other.
  • adj. alternate; reciprocal.
  • n. A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between…
  • n. One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
  • n. The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.

choice

  • n. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.
  • n. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.
  • n. Anything that can be chosen.
  • n. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
  • n. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
  • n. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.
  • adj. Especially good or preferred.
  • adj. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.
  • adj. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.

druthers

  • n. (US, informal, often jocular) Wishes, preferences, or ways.

liking

  • v. present participle of like.
  • n. A like; a predilection.

option

  • n. One of a set of choices that can be made.
  • n. The freedom or right to choose.
  • n. (finance, law) A contract giving the holder the right to buy or sell an asset at a set strike price; can…
  • n. (graphical user interface) A button on a screen used to select an action (often "menu option").
  • v. To purchase an option on something.
  • v. (computing, dated) To configure, by setting an option.

orientation

  • n. (countable) The determination of the relative position of something or someone.
  • n. (countable) The relative physical position or direction of something.
  • n. (uncountable) The construction of a Christian church to have its aisle in an east-west direction with…
  • n. (countable) An inclination, tendency or direction.
  • n. (countable) The ability to orient.
  • n. (countable) An adjustment to a new environment.
  • n. (countable) An introduction to a (new) environment.
  • n. (typography, countable) The direction of print across the page; landscape or portrait.
  • n. (mathematics, countable) The choice of which ordered bases are "positively" oriented and which are "negatively"…

penchant

  • n. Taste, liking, or inclination (for).
  • n. (card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.
  • n. (card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

predilection

  • n. Condition of favoring or liking; tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.

predisposition

  • n. the state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a disease or other health problem.

taste

  • n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
  • n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
  • n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
  • n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
  • n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
  • v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
  • v. To experience.
  • v. To take sparingly.
  • v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
  • v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

vantage

  • n. An advantage.
  • n. A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
  • n. A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
  • n. (dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce).
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.

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