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Noun
S: (n) inclination, disposition, tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others) "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"
S: (n) direction (a general course along which something has a tendency to develop) "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm"
S: (n) tenor (a settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life) "nothing disturbed the even tenor of her ways"
S: (n) drift, trend, movement (a general tendency to change (as of opinion)) "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
S: (n) neoteny (an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species)
S: (n) gravitation (a figurative movement toward some attraction) "the gravitation of the middle class to the suburbs"
S: (n) Call (a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course) "he was disappointed that he had not heard the Call"
S: (n) denominationalism (the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations)
S: (n) devices (an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices') "eventually the family left the house to the devices of this malevolent force"; "the children were left to their own devices"
S: (n) sympathy, understanding (an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion) "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding"
S: (n) bent, set (a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way) "the set of his mind was obvious"
S: (n) literalism (a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense)
S: (n) perseveration (the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it)
S: (n) predisposition (an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way)
S: (n) predilection, preference, orientation (a predisposition in favor of something) "a predilection for expensive cars"; "his sexual preferences"; "showed a Marxist orientation"
S: (n) favor, favour (an inclination to approve) "that style is in favor this season"
S: (n) taboo, tabu (a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature)
S: (n) experimenter bias ((psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment)
S: (n) homophobia (prejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality)
S: (n) Islamophobia (prejudice against Muslims) "Muslim intellectuals are afraid of growing Islamophobia in the West"
S: (n) racism (the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races)
S: (n) inclination, inclination of an orbit ((astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees)
S: (n) inclination, angle of inclination ((geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis))
S: (n) inclination (that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking) "her inclination is for classical music"
S: (n) tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning (the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical) "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
S: (n) tendency, inclination (a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect) "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink"
S: (n) inclination, inclining (the act of inclining; bending forward) "an inclination of his head indicated his agreement"