propensity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/
propensity
- An inclination, disposition, tendency, preference, or attraction.
- He has a propensity for lengthy discussions of certain favorite topics.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Last Chapter”, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC ↗, page 326 ↗:
- I must own they do dearly delight in a judgment; and sorry am I that I cannot gratify this laudable propensity by specifying some peculiar evil incurred by Mr. Delawarr's ambition, or Lady Etheringhame's vanity.
- 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC ↗:
- To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. It would seem, therefore, that, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities.
- proclivity, propension, predilection, see also Thesaurus:predilection
- French: propension, tendance
- German: Neigung, Tendenz
- Italian: propensione, tendenza, inclinazione
- Portuguese: propensão, tendência, inclinação, predisposição, predileção
- Russian: скло́нность
- Spanish: propensión, inclinación
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