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Definition of Propensity
1. Noun. An inclination to do something. "He felt leanings toward frivolity"
2. Noun. A natural inclination. "He has a proclivity for exaggeration"
3. Noun. A disposition to behave in a certain way. "The propensity of disease to spread"
Definition of Propensity
1. n. The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
Definition of Propensity
1. Noun. A tendency, preference, or attraction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Propensity
1. [n -TIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Propensity
Literary usage of Propensity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of President Edwards ...: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"That the mind of man has a natural tendency or propensity to that event which
has been shewn universally and infallibly to take place; and that this is a ..."
2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Such is the propensity of our nature to vice, that stronger restraints than those
of mere reason are necessary to be imposed ..."
3. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1844)
"... viz., that the mind of man has a natural tendency or propensity to that event,
which has been shown universally and infallibly to take place (if this be ..."
4. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1834)
"ACQUISITIVENESS,' is the name given, by the Phrenologists, not to the propensity
to steal, — which, if we understand them, they do not believe to be in any ..."
5. Elements of the Law of Torts for the Use of Students by Melville Madison Bigelow (1896)
"A owes to B the duty to prevent his animals (1) from doing damage to B, if A has
notice of their propensity to do damage, and (2) to prevent them from ..."
6. Elements of Mental Philosophy by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1847)
"(I.) If this propensity be not natural, it will be difficult to account for what
every ... They are greatly aided by this propensity in learning to utter ..."
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