What does penchant mean?
Penchant means Taste, liking, or inclination (for)..
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/ˈpɒnʃɒn/ · noun
Taste, liking, or inclination (for)..
He has a penchant for fine wine.
Marie even then began the course which, in after-years, secured her so vast an influence in the court,—alternately taking up and laying down her claim to the youthful monarch's penchant; administering to his amusement, and ready to encourage his passing fancies.
THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of "Do it yourself", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.
Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.
Use penchant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Penchant means Taste, liking, or inclination (for)..
Common synonyms include desire, predilection, preference, taste.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He has a penchant for fine wine.
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