proclivity
noun/prəˈklɪvəti/
/prəˈklɪvəti/
(formal) (plural proclivities)
- proclivity (for something/for doing something) a natural desire or need that makes you tend to do something, often something bad synonym propensity
- his sexual/criminal proclivities
- the government’s proclivity for spending money
- Most regimes have self-destructive proclivities.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin proclivitas, from proclivis ‘inclined’, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + clivus ‘slope’.
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