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leaning

lean.ing \'le--nin\ n : TENDENCY, INCLINATION LEANING suggests a liking or 
   attraction not strong enough to be decisive or uncontrollable; PROPENSITY 
   implies a deeply ingrained and usu. irresistable longing; PROCLIVITY 
   suggests a strong natural proneness usu. to something objectionable or 
   evil; PENCHANT implies a strongly marked taste in the person or an 
   irresistible attraction in the object; FLAIR suggests an instinctive or 
   unaccountable power of discernment in certain matters, or it may describe a 
   special and individual aptitude or knack SYN syn PROPENSITY, PROCLIVITY, 
   PENCHANT, FLAIR: