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proclivity

[ proh-kliv-i-tee ]

noun

, plural pro·cliv·i·ties.
  1. natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition:

    a proclivity to meticulousness.

    Synonyms: disposition, leaning, bent

    Antonyms: aversion



proclivity

/ prəˈklɪvɪtɪ /

noun

  1. a tendency or inclination


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Word History and Origins

Origin of proclivity1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of proclivity1

C16: from Latin prōclīvitās, from prōclīvis steep, from pro- 1+ clīvus a slope

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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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