What is another word for "leaning"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "leaning": acclivity, affect, aid, and, applicability, aptitude, aptness, ascent, bad, bank, beach, bend, bent, bevel, bias, bid, bigotry, box, breach, calculated, cant, carry, cast, conatus, conduce, conducive, conduciveness, contribute, crookedness, cry, curve, custom, declivity, descent, devexity, dip, direction, dispose, distortion, downhill.