Preference is what? Meaning, synonyms and examples

I want people or not, but their whole life consists of the fact that you need to choose at some point or another, give preference. It's unavoidable. So it would be nice to know what it is. Consider the word itself and its synonyms.

Value

"Preference" is a frequent visitor in the everyday dictionary. The reader must have heard often: "What do you prefer: tea or coffee?" And even without explanation, it was clear that a person is required to choose which drink will decorate his dinner, dinner, breakfast or help pass the time for a tedious conversation at a party. There are only two values.

1. Greater respect for a particular subject, person or development of events, greater desire for a certain outcome.
2. Same as taste or priority. The latter, in turn, itself needs an explanation. Priority is the dominant place of one or the other. This may be the first place of a scientist in the history of science. The advantage or predominance of a particular value. For example, if you give someone a place in transport, then the elderly and children have priority. The third meaning is a political goal. Examples of the reader can listen in the news, officials adore this word.

Synonyms

Naturally, the specific replacement depends on the situation. But we will provide everything for the reader to have a choice.

• Respect.
• Sympathy.
• OK.
• Taste.
• A priority.
• Value.
• A wish.
• Wishing.

The main thing when choosing - to observe the harmony of meaning and style of the text. Sometimes "preference" is not exactly the word that is required to express the intent of the author. It is worth paying attention to the fact that if they speak about the approval of something or someone, they often do not deal with the mind of a person. Even when it comes to respect, it is not always possible and should be talking about rational admiration for something. It happens that a man is respected in spite of himself. For example, when athletes get an opponent, they respect the stronger, not the weaker, although the latter has a better chance of winning.

Love triangle

The following example, which will show what a preference is, concerns a well-known love theme.

There is a girl and two boys (the reader can change mentally to another triangle, if this one does not like him). One of the good family, of course, is rich, with great prospects, and the other is poor, but ardent and hot. His only advantage over the opponent is that he loves the girl. The choice of a young woman will just depend on her preferences and taste, which are also not formed in a random way, but are rooted in her basic, system values and life goals. How does she imagine happiness? What does money mean to her? What is the essence of love? Does it understand clearly the meaning of the word "preference"? This series can be infinite.

Outwardly this can be vulgar or stupid. Or maybe the choice will be reasonable. What is important is that even behind such a common thing as love, there is a huge inner work of a man, which he himself does not fully understand.

Therefore, the sooner a person turns to the study of his inner world, the better. If he can clearly say that he loves, that he does not like what he is drawn to, then this, without jokes, can save him from many problems in the future. The key to self-knowledge is words, including "preference" (we already disassembled the meaning). Language not only helps us buy bread and milk in the store, but also allows us to understand who we are and why we came to the world, that is, to define our own, individual purpose of existence.