prepossession

noun2

1. •
   A preoccupation; having possession beforehand.

   • It opens his designs to his family, it introduces you among them, it diffuses through the party those pleasantest feelings of our nature, eager curiosity and warm prepossession. — 1815
2. •
   A preconceived opinion, or previous impression; bias, prejudice.

   • The spontaneous intellect of man always defines the divine which it feels in ways that harmonise with its temporary intellectual prepossessions. — 1902