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proclivity
[ proh-kliv-i-tee ]
noun
- natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition:
a proclivity to meticulousness.
Synonyms: disposition, leaning, bent
Antonyms: aversion
proclivity
/ prəˈklɪvɪtɪ /
noun
- a tendency or inclination
Word History and Origins
Origin of proclivity1
Word History and Origins
Origin of proclivity1
Example Sentences
But however laughable our proclivity for questions, doubt, and endless theorizing, it is just as equally inevitable.
When it comes time to write about his proclivity toward violence, I have all of these testimonies, filed in the same place.
Nowhere is that proclivity more in evidence than in immigration policy.
Two profilers labeled Karr/Reich as a man with a "definite proclivity toward pedophilia."
It is asserted that she had had, all her life, an avowed proclivity to suicide.
Yet before he took this step he was accused of a proclivity toward extraordinary things.
And as we know Don Benigno's proclivity in this direction, the shaft went home with diabolical effect.
And there is, in many French poets, a fatal proclivity to fuss just a little too much over their subjects.
The frog has a proclivity for squeezing into holes and cracks, or beneath objects on the ground.
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