Definition of propensity

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Propensity (n.) The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.

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Combativeness :: Combativeness (n.) The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.
Inhabitativeness :: Inhabitativeness (n.) A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
Salacity :: Salacity (n.) Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.
Incline :: Incline (v. i.) Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed..
Proclivity :: Proclivity (n.) Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.
Bias :: Bias (n.) A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination..
Appetency :: Appetency (n.) Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism..
Amativeness :: Amativeness (n.) The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love.
Adhesiveness :: Adhesiveness (n.) Propensity to form and maintain attachments to persons, and to promote social intercourse..
Nausea :: Nausea (n.) Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing..
Prurient :: Prurient (a.) Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful..
Disposition :: Disposition (n.) Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
Inclinable :: Inclinable (a.) Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth..
Destructiveness :: Destructiveness (n.) The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy.
Amorous :: Amorous (a.) Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition..
Disinclination :: Disinclination (n.) The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition..
Pronity :: Pronity (n.) Proneness; propensity.
Acquisitiveness :: Acquisitiveness (n.) The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.
Salacious :: Salacious (n.) Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.
Affection :: Affection (n.) Bent of mind; a feeling or natural impulse or natural impulse acting upon and swaying the mind; any emotion; as, the benevolent affections, esteem, gratitude, etc.; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency..
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