Englishleaning
noun
his early leanings were towards cooking and he went off to become a chef:
inclination, tendency, bent, proclivity, propensity, penchant, predisposition, predilection, proneness, partiality, preference, disposition, orientation, bias, attraction, liking, fancy, fondness, taste;
weakness, hankering, appetite, thirst.
leaning Oxford Dictionary of English