leaning

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a tendency or partiality toward a particular view or thing

   Her political leaning had shifted toward the center over the years.

From the present participle/gerund of lean (Old English hleonian, hlinian 'to recline, lean'), from Proto-Germanic *hlinēną, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ḱley- ('to lean').

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