Definitions

propensity

[pruh-pen-si-tee] / prəˈpɛn sɪ ti /

NOUN

inclination, weakness

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bias disposition leaning penchant predilection predisposition proclivity susceptibility tendency

STRONG

ability aptness bent capacity competence flash inclining liability partiality proneness talent thing tilt yen

WEAK

sweet tooth

Antonyms

STRONGEST

disinclination dislike hate

STRONG

hatred impotence inability inadequacy incompetence weakness

WEAK

antipathy

Example Sentences

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The parameter β1 was called the Marginal Propensity to Consume in Macroeconomics Principles.

From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017

There is also some Pain, or at least a Sensation of Weight and Heaviness in the Head: and frequently a Propensity to rave.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

What is further very extraordinary in this Work, is, that the Persons are all of them laudable, and their Misfortunes arise rather from unguarded Virtue than Propensity to Vice.

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

His Countenance is higher coloured than in Health; he has a Propensity to sleep, but attended with Confusion and without Refreshment, and has sometimes an extraordinary Appetite.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

What further increases our Horror at this enormous Propensity to heat, dry up, and cram the sick is, that it is totally opposite to what Nature herself indicates in such Circumstances.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

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