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Definition: Proclivity |
ProclivityNoun1. A natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "proclivity" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Proclivity His proclivities are all evil. His tendencies or propensities have a wrong bias. The word means downhill tendency. (Latin, proclivis.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ProclivitySynonyms: leaning (n), propensity (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affections | Noun: affections, affect; character, qualities, disposition, nature, spirit, tone; temper, temperament; diathesis, idiosyncrasy; cast of mind, cast of soul, habit of mind, habit of soul, frame of mind, frame of soul; predilection, turn, natural turn of mind; bent, bias, predisposition, proneness, proclivity, propensity, propenseness, propension, propendency; vein, humor, mood, grain, mettle; sympathy; (love). |
Necessity | Noun: involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse; inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency; natural impulse, predetermination. |
Tendency | Noun: tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift; (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability; (utility); subservience; (instrumentality). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Proclivity |
| English words defined with "proclivity": Inclination of the needle ♦ leaning ♦ propensity. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "proclivity": computer ethics ♦ Packing a Jury. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Philippines | The ASG's many kidnapings, and its proclivity for beheading many of its victims to induce the payment of ransom, led to an intense government crackdown beginning in July, when the President cited the existence of a "state of lawlessness" in Basilan. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Proclivity" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Proclivity" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
proclivity | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "proclivity"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | prirje (affinity, aptitude, bent, current, disposition, drift, flair, fondness, gift, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, mission, penchant, propensity, run, set, taste, tendency, trend, vocation), tendencë (aim, drift, inclination, leaning, set, tendency, trend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ميل (affection, aptness, bent, bevel, cant, disposition, flair, genius, gradient, gust, gusto, inclination, lean, leaning, liking, obliqueness, obliquity, penchant, persuasion, ply, predilection, predisposition, propensity, readiness, run, sentiment, set, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tip, turn, use, will), نزعة (bent, bias, direction, disposition, genius, leaning, movement, penchant, ply, predisposition, strain, streak, temper, tendency, trend, wind). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | склонност (addiction, affectation, aptitude, bent, bias, disposition, fancy, fondness, habit, inclination, leaning, liability, liking, partiality, penchant, ply, predilection, predispose, prepossession, proneness, propensity, relish, squint, stomach, taste, tendency, turn, vein), тенденция (drift, hang, movement, pattern, ply, proneness, propensity, run, set, stream, tendency, tenor, tide, trend, turn, vein). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 倾向 (declination, Favored, Favoring, inclination, Propensities, Propensity, Tendencies, tendency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sklon (aptitude, bent, bevel, bias, dip, disposition, drive, fall, gradient, inclination, lean, leaning, penchant, ply, propensity, rake, slant, slope, strain, tendency, tilt, twist), náklonnost (affection, bent, bias, Favor, favour, fondness, goodwill, inclination, partiality, penchant, taste), náchylnost (inclination, liability, predisposition, propensity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | propension (propensity), inclination. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | neigung (affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, declination, decline, dip, disposition, fall, fondness, gradient, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, list, obliqueness, penchant, pitch, predisposition, proneness, propensity, rake, slant, slope, taste, tendance, tendency, tilt, turn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλίση (acclivity, aptitude, bend, bent, bias, cant, careen, conjugation, flair, flexion, gradient, inclination, inflection, inflexion, leaning, list, penchant, pitch, propensity, slant, slope, tendency, tilt, tipping), ροπή (inclination, propensity, tendency, torque, trend), τάση (affinity, bent, drift, inclination, potential, strain, tendency, trend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טי" (bent, deviation, disposition, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, pitch, predilection, propensity, rake, set, slant, spirit, streak, taste, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rossz irányú erkölcsi hajlam, hajlam (aptitude, bent, bias, dispose, disposition, gift, hank, inclination, instinct, leaning, liability, penchant, predisposition, proneness, propensity, susceptibility, tendency). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tendenza (bent, departure, disposition, drift, liability, propensity, strain, tendency, trend, undercurrent), inclinazione (addiction, aptitude, assessment, bend, bent, bias, cant, dip, disposition, fancy, gradient, hang, inclination, lean, liking, penchant, pitch, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, stoop, taste, tendency, tilt, tip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oclivitypray propensão (bias, leaning, propensity, tendency), tendência (aptitude, bent, bias, compliance, current, driving, leaning, liability, propensity, stomach, tendency, tide, trend, vocation), inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, dip, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, falling, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, leaning, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, propensity, rake, ramp, recession, sag, slant, slope, stomach, tendency, tilt, tip, trend, vocation, will). (various references) tendinţã (aptness, bearing, bent, departure, determination, disposition, drift, drive, endeavor, endeavour, hang, inclination, leaning, run, strain, streak, striving, tendency, trend), înclinaţie (addiction, aptness, disposition, grain, hade, inclination, incline, individuality, lean, leaning, mind, notion, partiality, penchant, ply, predisposition, propensity, relish, set, squint, taste, tendency, turn, twist, vein, vocation). (various references) склонность (aptitude, bent, disposition, fancy, flair, inclination, inclination for, inclination to, leaning, liking, lurch, partiality, penchant, predisposition, proneness, propensity, vocation, weakness, zest). (various references) sklonost (affinity, bent, bias, calling, fancy, fondness, inclination, leaning, liking, penchant, propensity, taste, tendency). (various references) propensión (disposition, inclination, leaning, predisposition, proneness, propensity, susceptibility, tendency, turn). (various references) yatkınlık (aptness, bent, familiarity, predisposition), meyil (affection, aptitude, bias, cant, declivity, gradient, gravitation, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, liking, obliquity, penchant, proneness, propensity, slant, slope, talus, tendency, tide, tilt, trend), eğilim (affection, aptitude, bent, bias, current, device, disposition, drift, gravitation, inclination, leaning, liability, notion, obliquity, penchant, ply, predisposition, proneness, propensity, pulse, relish, sense, set, slant, squint, tendency, tenor, tide, tilt, trend, turn, twist). (various references) тенденція (spirit, tendence, tendency, trend), нахил (bend, bent, cant, declination, droop, hang, inclination, incline, lurch, notion, obliqueness, obliquity, palate, ply, propensity, slope, tilt, tip). (various references) xu hướng (avocation, bent, calling, tendency, tide, trend), sự thiên về (bias), sự ngả về. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | proclivitatem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Proclivity" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preclivity, proclavity, proclevity, proclivaty, procliviity, provlivity. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "proclivity" (pronounced prōkli"vutē) |
| 5 | -i" v u t ē | activity, aggressivity, captivity, conductivity, connectivity, creativity, exclusivity, expressivity, festivity, hyperactivity, inactivity, insensitivity, nativity, negativity, objectivity, oversensitivity, passivity, productivity, progressivity, radioactivity, reactivity, receptivity, reflexivity, relativity, retroactivity, selectivity, sensitivity, subjectivity, superconductivity. |
| 4 | -v u t ē | brevity, cavity, depravity, gravity, hypersensitivity, levity, longevity, velvety. |
| 3 | -u t ē | ability, abnormality, absurdity, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, acidity, actuality, acuity, adaptability, admissibility, adversity, advisability, affinity, affordability, agility, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amiability, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, applicability, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, availability, banality, barbarity, believability, bestiality, biodiversity, bisexuality, brutality, calamity, capability, capacity, causality, celebrity, centrality, charity, chastity, civility, clarity, collegiality, commodity, commonality, community, comparability, compatibility, complexity, complicity, comprehensibility, conditionality, confidentiality, conformity, congeniality, congruity, constitutionality, continuity, convertibility, credibility, credulity, criminality, criticality, crotchety, culpability, curiosity, cyclicality, debility, deductibility, deformity, deity, deniability, density, dependability, deputy, desirability, dexterity, dignity, dimensionality, disability, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, docility, domesticity, duality, ductility, duplicity, durability, eccentricity, elasticity, electability, electricity, eligibility, enforceability, enmity, enormity, entity, equality, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, eventuality, extraterritoriality, extremity, facility, fallibility, falsity, familiarity, fatality, feasibility, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, fertility, fidelity, finality, flammability, flexibility, fluidity, formality, fragility, fraternity, frivolity, frugality, functionality, futility, generality, generosity, geniality, gentility, gratuity, gullibility, heredity, heterogeneity, heterosexuality, hilarity, homogeneity, homosexuality, hospitality, hostility, humanity, humidity, humility, identity, illegality, illiquidity, immaturity, immobility, immorality, immortality, immunity, impartiality, impersonality, impossibility, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inability, inaccessibility, incapacity, incivility, incompatibility, incongruity, incredulity, indemnity, indestructibility, indignity, individuality, inequality, inequity, inevitability, infallibility, inferiority, infertility, infidelity, infinity, infirmity, inflexibility, informality, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, instability, instrumentality, insularity, integrity, intensity, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irrationality, irregularity, irresponsibility, irritability, laity, laxity, legality, legibility, lethality, liability, liberality, liquidity, lividity, locality, majority, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, masculinity, materiality, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, mentality, minority, miscibility, mobility, modality, modernity, monstrosity, morality, morbidity, mortality, motility, multiplicity, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, necessity, neutrality, nobility, Nonconformity, nonentity, nonutility, normality, notoriety, nudity, obesity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, originality, overcapacity, palatability, parity, partiality, particularity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, permeability, perpetuity, perplexity, personality, perversity, piety, plausibility, plurality, polarity, polity, pomposity, popularity, portability, possibility, posterity, practicality, predictability, principality, priority, probability, probity, profanity, profitability, promiscuity, propensity, proportionality, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, punctuality, purity, quality, quantity, rapidity, rarity, rationality, readability, reality, reciprocity, regularity, reliability, religiosity, respectability, responsibility, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, seasonality, security, senility, seniority, sensibility, sensuality, sentimentality, serendipity, serenity, severity, sexuality, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, speciality, specificity, spirituality, spontaneity, stability, sterility, stupidity, suitability, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, technicality, temerity, tenacity, theatricality, timidity, tonality, totality, toxicity, tranquility, transferability, Trinity, triviality, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unavailability, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, universality, university, unpopularity, unpredictability, unreality, unreliability, uppity, utility, validity, vanity, variability, variety, varsity, velocity, venality, veracity, Verity, versatility, viability, vicinity, virginity, virility, virtuosity, viscosity, visibility, vitality, volatility, voracity, vulgarity, vulnerability. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-o-p-r-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: politic, privily, privity, pyloric, pyritic, tripoli, victory, vitriol. | |
-4 letters: crypto, lictor, policy, polity, portly, protyl, pylori, ropily, triply, tropic, victor, vitric. | |
-5 letters: civil, clipt, crypt, icily, ivory, licit, lirot, lotic, lyric, lytic, octyl, optic, picot, pilot, pivot, pricy, privy, pyric, roily, topic, toric, torii, triol, typic, volti. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-o-p-r-t-v-y" | |
+3 letters: provinciality. | |
+4 letters: proscriptively. | |
+5 letters: hypervelocities, introspectively. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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