bent
n. countablen. a natural talent or a strong interest in a particular activity. You use this when someone is naturally good at something or prefers one thing over another.
n. a natural talent, inclination, or bias toward a specific activity or way of thinking. Often used to describe an inherent aptitude or a recurring intellectual preference.
She has a creative bent and loves painting.
With his strong mathematical bent, he found the complex physics equations much easier to solve than his classmates did.
The university's philosophy department has a distinctly analytical bent, focusing more on logic and language than on historical or continental traditions.
Often used with the preposition 'for' or 'toward', or as a singular noun with an adjective like 'artistic' or 'academic'.