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proclivities

[proh-kliv-i-tee]

noun, plural -ties.

natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness.

Origin:
1585–95; < Latin prōclīvitās tendency, literally, a steep descent, steepness, equivalent to prōclīv(is) sloping forward, steep (prō- pro-¹ + clīv(us) slope + -is adj. suffix) + -itās -ity

Synonyms
bent, leaning, disposition.

Antonyms
aversion.

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Example Sentences

Their efforts begin with some similarities, and then their imaginations and proclivities go to work.

Such an occupation would make use of my education, and it would satisfy my bookish proclivities.

It will also forbid insurers from discriminating against individuals because of genetic proclivities.

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Their efforts begin with some similarities, and then their imaginations and proclivities go to work.

Such an occupation would make use of my education, and it would satisfy my bookish proclivities.

It will also forbid insurers from discriminating against individuals because of genetic proclivities.

Everyone grows a form of the drug, regardless of their political leanings or recreational proclivities.

Heaven help future historians tempted to interpret this era's spiritual proclivities from a close reading of recent movies.

Males in those species differ from us in their paternal proclivities.

But they resent any suggestion that they smell of neo-Nazi proclivities.

The proclivities of the arguer will emerge in time toward consistently poor survey of data and consitently poor logic.

The surveyed group exhibit disturbing proclivities during daytime, too.

And much of the rest is going on state-driven projects, reinforcing the state's rent-seeking or megalomaniac proclivities.

Wiener is a person who lets his proclivities interfere with his good judgement.

My crockery-buying proclivities have amazed and more than occasionally dismayed my traveling.

The territorial proclivities of the data-retrieval industry border on extreme paranoia.

The innate proclivities of artists incline them to respond to their surroundings in particular ways.

For those who have not made peace with these proclivities it can be frustrating and guilt ridden.

These are mental perceptions and proclivities which are created resulting from the anxiety of resistance to the present.

Free expressions are not always pleasant, but they must ever be protected, with no regard to the proclivities of the enemy.

Through the irony of fate the police have enough information about her blackmailing proclivities to force her to spy on.

Among other things, many of the mainly male sportswriters who shape his public image find his artistic proclivities incongruous.

The pruning part of biotechnology involves eliminating proclivities that might be useful to a wild.

Rice's confidence about her daunting subject allows some of her familiar proclivities to emerge.

Unlike so many collectors who keep their proclivities deeply hidden.

It's meant to usher in a new era of benevolence from a government previously defined by genocidal proclivities and purges.

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Word Origin & History

proclivity

1591, from L. proclivitatem (nom. proclivitas) "a tendency, propensity," from proclivis "prone to," lit. "sloping," from pro- "forward" + clivus "a slope," from PIE *klei-wo-, suffixed form of *klei "to lean" (see lean (v.)).

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