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
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
Mr. Moncure Conway, in his autobiography, gives an amusing reminiscence of Bret Harte’s proneness to escape from what are known as “social duties.”
From The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers by Henry Childs Merwin
