proneness

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"We find it highly unlikely that segmented filamentous bacteria is the only gut microbe capable of impacting the phenotype of alveolar macrophages, and consequently, proneness to respiratory virus infection," Gewirtz said.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2024

More recent research has explored boredom as an inherent trait — known as boredom proneness — which has a whole host of negative associations.

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

Yet Kompany’s injury proneness means Guardiola has only three central defenders he can rely on for a position in which his system often requires this number.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2018

He sacrifices everything for effect, and hence his proneness to horrors.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh