favoring

English

Verb

favoring

1. present participle and gerund of favor

Noun

favoring (plural favorings)

1. (philosophy) The act or state by which one favors something; preference.
   • 2018, Stefan Fischer, The Origin of Oughtness: A Case for Metaethical Conativism, page 69:

     Unlike in Smith's case, however, here the relevant intuition does not concern a particular example, but moral favorings in general. Intuitively, it is said, what we morally ought to do simply does not depend on what we want to do.