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- Dictionarypro·pen·si·ty/prəˈpensədē/
noun
- 1. an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way: "a propensity for violence"
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Propensity: a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much. Proclivity: natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness. So while propensity and proclivity are close synonyms, and interchangeable, predilection means something different, and should not be used as a synonym.
Nov 14, 2011 · Stack Exchange Network. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers.
May 28, 2015 · A context would help. It's clear from the example that you've given that it's from a piece of literature.
Feb 27, 2019 · A "propensity" is a quality of a person. For example, I have a propensity to drink too much, I have a propensity to post on the ELU site, I have a propensity to get drunk (mentioned that one!), you have a propensity to watch sci-fi movies, etc etc. "Probability" is a mathematical term and is just totally unrelated.
Aug 31, 2016 · Propensity. A propensity is a probabilistic disposition of an object or person to behave in a certain way—for example, the disposition of a radium atom to undergo radioactive decay in a given time-period with a certain degree of chance.
I'm a native speaker and it sounds fine to me, but I know several people (myself included) who have a propensity to "verb words" as described in the Calvin and Hobbes comic linked above. – KChaloux
How does one correctly apply “in which”, “of which”, “at which”, “to which”, etc.? I'm confused with which one to apply when constructing sentences around these.
It is possible that the word people are searching for when using the term "pronunciate" and/or which may be preferable to the word "pronounce" is enunciate which is defined on Dictionary.com as "[to] say or pronounce clearly".
Sep 17, 2017 · Now, how the term/s is/are used in maths is a different issue. But anyone distinguishing between a compound well-defined and a collocation well defined / defined well is duty bound to define terminology, as this isn't general practice (and off-topic on ELU). –
Nov 20, 2012 · In Strunk & White, E.B. White's answer was: Do not write nite for night, thru for through, pleez for please, unless you plan to introduce a complete system of simplified spelling and are prepared to take the consequences.
