mindmap root((偏见)) predilection implies a strong liking deriving from one's temperament or experience: teenagers with a ~ for gory horror movies. prepossession suggests a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgment of anything counter to it: a slave to his own ~s. prejudice usually implies an unfavorable prepossession and connotes a feeling rooted in suspicion, fear, or intolerance: strong ~s that are based upon neither reason nor experience. bias implies an unreasoned and unfair distortion of judgment in favor of or against a person or thing: society shows a ~ against overweight people.