orientation

Noun

• a course introducing a new situation or environment

• a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships

• a predisposition in favor of something
  • a predilection for expensive cars
    
  • his sexual preferences
    
  • showed a Marxist orientation
    

• position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions

• an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs

• the act of orienting

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  orientation course , predilection , preference