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- DictionaryPen·chant/ˈpen(t)SH(ə)nt/
noun
- 1. a strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something: "he has a penchant for adopting stray dogs"
Penchant definition: a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something. See examples of PENCHANT used in a sentence.
A penchant is a strong preference or tendency. If you have a penchant for pizza, you either eat it daily or wish you did. Penchant borrows from French, in which penchant literally means inclined. It goes back to the Latin pendere, for hanging, which is also the source of pendant.
4 days ago · penchant. (pɒnʃɒn , pentʃənt ) singular noun. If someone has a penchant for something, they have a special liking for it or a tendency to do it. [formal] ...a stylish woman with a penchant for dark glasses. [ + for] He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
Definition of penchant noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A strong liking or fondness; inclination; taste. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: preference. taste. predilection. liking. knack. fondness. fancy. attraction. affinity. tendency. propensity. proneness. partiality. leaning. inclination. Antonyms: hatred. hate. dislike. indifference. Other Word Forms of Penchant. Noun.
penchant. noun. uk / ˈpɒnʃɒŋ / us / ˈpentʃənt /. have a penchant for sth formal. Add to word list Add to word list. to like something very much: Miguel has a penchant for fast cars. (Definition of penchant from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
noun. An inclination to something: bent, bias, cast, disposition, leaning, partiality, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, squint, tendency, trend, turn. The American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
