Whether people want or not, but their whole life consists of the fact that you need to choose one or another at a certain moment, give preference. It's unavoidable. Therefore, it would be nice to know what it is. Consider the word itself and synonyms for it.
Value
"Preference" is a frequent guest in the everyday dictionary. The reader must have often heard: “What do you prefer: tea or coffee?” And even without explanation, it was clear that a person was required to choose which drink would decorate his lunch, dinner, breakfast or help pass the time behind a tedious conversation at a party. There are only two values.
- Greater respect for a particular subject, person or development of events, greater desire for a certain outcome.
- Same as taste or priority. The latter, in turn, needs to be clarified. Priority is the dominant place of this or that. This may be the first place of a scientist in the history of science. The advantage or prevalence of a particular value. For example, if you give someone a place in the transport, then the elderly and children have priority. The third meaning is the political goal. The reader can listen to examples in the news, officials love this word.
Synonyms
Naturally, the specific replacement depends on the situation. But we will provide everything so that the reader has a choice.
- Respect.
- Sympathy.
- OK.
- Taste.
- A priority.
- Value.
- A wish.
- Desire
The main thing when choosing is to observe the harmony of the meaning and style of the text. Sometimes “preference” is not quite the word that is required to express the author’s intention. It is worth paying attention to the fact that if they talk about the approval of something or someone, they often do not deal with the human mind. Even when it comes to respect, it is not always possible and necessary to talk about rational admiration for something. It also happens that a person is respected in spite of. For example, when athletes get an opponent, they respect the stronger, not the weaker, although with the latter there is a greater chance of winning.
Love triangle
The obvious example, which shows what such a preference, concerns a well-known love theme.
There is a girl and two boys (the reader can mentally change to another triangle, if he does not like this one). One of the good family, of course, is rich, with excellent prospects, and the other is poor, but ardent and hot. His only advantage over his opponent is that he loves a girl. The choice of a young woman will depend on her preferences and taste, which are also not formed randomly, but go back to her basic, systemic values and life goals. How does she imagine happiness? What does money mean to her? What is the essence of love? Does she clearly recognize the meaning of the word “preference”? This series can be infinite.
Outwardly, it can be expressed vulgarly or stupidly. Or maybe the choice will be reasonable. The important thing is that even behind such an ordinary thing as love, there is a huge inner work of a person, 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 love, what he is attracted to, then this, without jokes, can save him from many problems in the future. The key to self-knowledge is words, including “preference” (we have already figured out the meaning). The 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 determine our own, individual purpose of existence.