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A fancy word for a weakness you're not ashamed of yet.
means A strong, habitual liking or inclination toward something.
from Borrowed straight from French, where 'penchant' is the present participle of 'pencher,' meaning 'to lean or incline' — itself from Latin 'pendere,' 'to hang.' So a penchant is literally a leaning: your weight tipping helplessly toward one side of the room.
- origin
- from French pencher, to lean or tilt
- usage tell
- always followed by for, never against
- synonym energy
- a classier way to admit a bias