Propensity

Quick meaning: Propensity is a noun meaning An inclination, disposition, tendency, preference, or attraction.

Meaning

An inclination, disposition, tendency, preference, or attraction.

Example Sentences

He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving.

He has a propensity for lengthy discussions of certain favorite topics.

Here their peculiar propensities manifest themselves in making shibboleths of abstractions, in rationalizing and carrying to extremes certain ambitions which spring from the normal intercourse of men.

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.

Word Forms

• propensities

Synonyms for propensity

Depending on context, synonyms include proclivity, predisposition, predilection, propension, affinity, bag.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tendency, proclivity, aptness, leaning, bias, predisposition.

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