proneness

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They surveyed more than 400 people and asked them to complete multiple measures assessing various levels of obsessive-compulsive behavior, fear of missing out, inhibitory anxiety, boredom proneness and PSU.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2024

He surveyed 52 patients who had suffered either mild, moderate or severe TBI, finding that the presence and severity of head trauma predicted levels of boredom proneness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

We should buck commercial considerations to the extent that we can and give the candidates’ competing visions of government as much scrutiny as their competing talents for quips or proneness to gaffes.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2019

Fitness remains a concern for the 34-year-old, with his combative style hardly conducive to a player of such injury proneness.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2016

"Oh yes, thank you," she answered, striving to speak heartily, and repressing with difficulty that proneness of the lip to quiver.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.