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Definition of propensity in English: propensitynounPlural propensities prəˈpɛnsɪtiprəˈpɛnsədi An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way. 倾向，习性 his propensity for violence with infinitive their innate propensity to attack one another 他们互相攻击的天生习性。 Example sentencesExamples - But the hardy little device was now safe from his propensity to overwork it and from my hysteria.
- Towards the end of his reign he showed an increasing propensity for paranoia.
- It is better to look for those tulips with a natural propensity for repeat performance.
- It's not particularly attractive or impressive and it has the propensity to fall over when it gets too tall for its pot.
- I was not always a good person, and there's a part of everyone that has a propensity to do bad.
- If this were any other job, and we were looking these men's resumes, we would want to know what skills and propensities and types of character they had displayed in these formative years of their lives.
- The main problem here is the propensity of the land to flood, and Edinburgh council are still debating the best solutions.
- In the battle for customers, a propensity to boast loudly and publicly about rate cuts is not always matched by a desire to cut profits.
- Their propensity for misalignment and poor passing was only exceeded by their ability to kick good ball away.
- On the other side of the coin, restrictive policies bring about an inhibiting econo-socio-political environment, which restrains the blossoming of a society's natural propensities.
- Every advance in knowledge has to be earned by a painful struggle against our spontaneous propensity for ignorance.
- Those that succeed do so with grace and with what seems to be a natural propensity to invent.
- Given my propensities and proclivities, I do not know how, in this symbolic sense, I could have spent the inception of the millennium in a more meaningful way.
- That propensity to be overwhelmed by external stimuli also means she is unable to drive.
- Now with the increased propensity of sloth in my lifestyle, I am getting out of shape.
- The government has long since given up trying to reduce the propensity to commit crime.
- He doesn't suffer fools gladly and has a propensity for telling the truth.
- For the majority of young people, a propensity to blush is a natural, if embarrassing, aspect of adolescence.
- This leads to an adverse impact on the propensity to save and the domestic accumulation of capital.
- Others find her propensity for tacky glamour and ostentatious lack of decent clothing a little too much to bear.
Synonyms tendency, inclination, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, readiness, susceptibility, liability, disposition aptness, penchant, leaning, predilection, bent, habit, weakness
OriginLate 16th century: from archaic propense (from Latin propensus 'inclined', past participle of propendere, from pro- 'forward, down' + pendere 'hang') + -ity. Rhymesdensity, immensity, tensity Definition of propensity in US English: propensitynounprəˈpɛnsədiprəˈpensədē An inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way. 倾向，习性 a propensity for violence with infinitive their innate propensity to attack one another 他们互相攻击的天生习性。 Example sentencesExamples - Given my propensities and proclivities, I do not know how, in this symbolic sense, I could have spent the inception of the millennium in a more meaningful way.
- That propensity to be overwhelmed by external stimuli also means she is unable to drive.
- Every advance in knowledge has to be earned by a painful struggle against our spontaneous propensity for ignorance.
- But the hardy little device was now safe from his propensity to overwork it and from my hysteria.
- Their propensity for misalignment and poor passing was only exceeded by their ability to kick good ball away.
- Those that succeed do so with grace and with what seems to be a natural propensity to invent.
- On the other side of the coin, restrictive policies bring about an inhibiting econo-socio-political environment, which restrains the blossoming of a society's natural propensities.
- It's not particularly attractive or impressive and it has the propensity to fall over when it gets too tall for its pot.
- He doesn't suffer fools gladly and has a propensity for telling the truth.
- The main problem here is the propensity of the land to flood, and Edinburgh council are still debating the best solutions.
- The government has long since given up trying to reduce the propensity to commit crime.
- I was not always a good person, and there's a part of everyone that has a propensity to do bad.
- This leads to an adverse impact on the propensity to save and the domestic accumulation of capital.
- If this were any other job, and we were looking these men's resumes, we would want to know what skills and propensities and types of character they had displayed in these formative years of their lives.
- Towards the end of his reign he showed an increasing propensity for paranoia.
- Now with the increased propensity of sloth in my lifestyle, I am getting out of shape.
- In the battle for customers, a propensity to boast loudly and publicly about rate cuts is not always matched by a desire to cut profits.
- Others find her propensity for tacky glamour and ostentatious lack of decent clothing a little too much to bear.
- It is better to look for those tulips with a natural propensity for repeat performance.
- For the majority of young people, a propensity to blush is a natural, if embarrassing, aspect of adolescence.
Synonyms tendency, inclination, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, readiness, susceptibility, liability, disposition
OriginLate 16th century: from archaic propense (from Latin propensus ‘inclined’, past participle of propendere, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + pendere ‘hang’) + -ity. |