All penchant synonyms
pen·chant
P p noun penchant
- leaning — the act or state of leaning; inclination: The tower has a pronounced lean.
- onesidedness — The property of being onesided.
- inconstancy — not constant; changeable; fickle; variable: an inconstant friend.
- assuetude — the state of being familiar with or used to something
- inclination — a disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; a liking or preference: Much against his inclination, he was forced to resign.
- appetence — a natural craving or desire
- liking — Usually, likes. the things a person likes: a long list of likes and dislikes.
- appetency — a strong desire; craving; appetite
- fancy — imagination or fantasy, especially as exercised in a capricious manner.
- weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
- druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
- narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
- appetite — Your appetite is your desire to eat.
- hangup — Alternative spelling of hang-up.
- envisagement — The act of envisaging.
- make-up — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
- emotionalism — An emotional state of mind, a tendency to regard things in an emotional manner; emotional behaviour or characteristics. (from 19th c.).
- gluttony — excessive eating and drinking.
- liableness — Quality of being liable; liability.
- faculty — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
- inclining — an inclined surface; slope; slant.
- bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
- bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
- habit — an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
- illiberality — narrowminded; bigoted.
- headset — Radio, Telephony. a device consisting of one or two earphones with a headband for holding them over the ears and sometimes with a mouthpiece attached.
- faintness — lacking brightness, vividness, clearness, loudness, strength, etc.: a faint light; a faint color; a faint sound.
- appetition — a desire or craving directed towards a specific object, goal, or purpose
- disposition — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
- hearts and flowers — maudlin sentimentality: The play is a period piece, full of innocence abused and hearts and flowers.
- fetish — an object regarded with awe as being the embodiment or habitation of a potent spirit or as having magical potency.
- fondness — the state or quality of being fond.
- big eyes — any of several silver and red fishes of the family Priacanthidae, found in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies, having a short, flattened body and large eyes.
- invalidity — invalidism.
verb penchant
- jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.