Predilection
Original Source:
"I have no idea what turn of a five-year-old's mind could have prompted so insistently 'ironic' and exotic a story, but it does reveal a certain predilection for the extreme which has dogged me into adult life; perhaps if I were analytically inclined i would fin it a truer story than any I might have told about Donald Johnson's birthday party or the day my cousin Brenda put Kitty Litter in the aquarium."
"On Keeping
a Notebook by Joan Didion." h-ngm-n.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Jan.
2014.
<http://www.h-ngm-n.com/storage/didion%20-%20on%20keeping%20a%20notebook.pdf>.
Definition*:
a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference.
*All definitions are from the source found in THIS post.
Second Source:
"But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
"Quote by
Fyodor Dostoevsky: But man has such a predilection for systems and...." Goodreads.
N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Jan. 2014. <http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/439008-but-man-has-such-a-predilection-for-systems-and-abstract>.
Commentary:
The word predilection resembles the word prediction, so initially I thought the word to be a synonym. Didion and Dostoevsky both employ the word with the similar connotation. Didion speaks of a preference for the extreme in her early life and Dostoevsky speaks of man's preference for systems and abstract deductions.
The word predilection resembles the word prediction, so initially I thought the word to be a synonym. Didion and Dostoevsky both employ the word with the similar connotation. Didion speaks of a preference for the extreme in her early life and Dostoevsky speaks of man's preference for systems and abstract deductions.
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