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Definition of Propensity
Propensity

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

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Propensity Quotations

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

The propensity to do good things is a choice.
Shaun Cassidy

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume

Propensity Translations

propensity in German is Neigung


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