proclivity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pro=cliv=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

proclivity, n. [L. proclivitas: cf. F. proclivité.].

•  Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.  Abp. Bramhall.  [1913 Webster]
•  Readiness; facility; aptitude.  [1913 Webster]

  "He had such a dexterous proclivity as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

proclivity, n. (pl. -ies) a tendency or inclination.

Etymology

L proclivitas f. proclivis inclined (as PRO-(1), clivus slope)

THESAURUS

proclivity

a thing for, affinity, animus, aptitude, aptness, bag, bent, bias, cast, character, chosen kind, conatus, conduciveness, constitution, cup of tea, delight, diathesis, disposition, druthers, eagerness, eccentricity, fancy, fascination, favor, feeling for, grain, idiosyncrasy, inclination, inclining, individualism, kidney, leaning, liability, liking, make, makeup, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, mutual affinity, mutual attraction, nature, partiality, particular choice, penchant, personal choice, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, probability, proneness, propensity, readiness, sensitivity to, set, slant, soft spot, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, style, susceptibility, sympathy, taste, temper, temperament, tendency, thing, tropism, turn, turn of mind, twist, type, warp, weakness, willingness

ROGET THESAURUS

proclivity

Affections

N 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, soul, heart, breast, bosom, inner man, heart's core, heart's strings, heart's blood, heart of hearts, bottom of one's heart, penetralia mentis, secret and inmost recesses of the heart, cockles of one's heart, inmost heart, inmost soul, backbone, passion, pervading spirit, ruling passion, master passion, furore, fullness of the heart, heyday of the blood, flesh and blood, flow of soul, energy, fervor, fire, force, affected, characterized, formed, molded, cast, attempered, tempered, framed, predisposed, prone, inclined, having a bias, tinctured with, imbued with, penetrated with, eaten up with, inborn, inbred, ingrained, deep-rooted, ineffaceable, inveterate, pathoscopic, congenital, dyed in the wool, implanted by nature, inherent, in the grain, affective, in one's heart, at heart, heart and soul, affection is a coal that must be cool'd else suffe.

Tendency

N 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, conduciveness, conducement, applicability, subservience, tending, conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to, liable, subservient, useful, subsidiary, for, whither.