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prepossessionnoun an attitude, belief, or impression formed in advance of actual experience of somethingthe foreign tourists' prepossessions about life in the U.S. had been formed by many hours of American TV shows preconception, prejudgment bias, favor, partiality, prejudiceassumption, conjecture, hypothesis, imagining, predetermination, presumption, presupposition, speculation, supposition, theory, thesisconcept, conception, image, notion, picture, thought detachment, impartiality, neutrality, objectivity, open-mindedness, unbiasedness something about which one is constantly thinking or concernedtried to cure him of his prepossession with money fetish(also fetich), fixation, idée fixe, mania, obsession, preoccupation monomaniacomplex, hang-up, problem, tripappetite, cacoëthes, compulsion, craving, desire, drive, enthusiasm, fascination, hankering, hunger, infatuation, itch, longing, lust, passion, pining, thirst, urge, yearning, yenidiosyncrasy, quirkbent, disposition, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency apathy, disinterestedness, disregard, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern, unconcernedness predilection, prepossession, prejudice, bias mean an attitude of mind that predisposes one to favor something.predilection implies a strong liking deriving from one's temperament or experience.a predilection for travel prepossession suggests a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgment of anything counter to it.a prepossession against technology prejudice usually implies an unfavorable prepossession and connotes a feeling rooted in suspicion, fear, or intolerance.a mindless prejudice against the unfamiliar bias implies an unreasoned and unfair distortion of judgment in favor of or against a person or thing.a strong bias toward the plaintiff in 1638 |