propensity
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/icons/point.icon LEANING, PROPENSITY, PROCLIVITY, PENCHANT mean a strong instinct or liking for something.
LEANING suggests a liking or attraction not strong enough to be decisive or uncontrollable.
e.g. a student with artistic leanings
PROPENSITY implies a deeply ingrained and usually irresistible inclination.
e.g. a propensity to offer advice
PROCLIVITY suggests a strong natural proneness usually to something objectionable or evil.
e.g. a proclivity for violence
PENCHANT implies a strongly marked taste in the person or an irresistible attraction in the object.
e.g. a penchant for taking risks
noun (plural propensities)
an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way:
｟かたく｠ «特に好ましくないことへの/…する» (生まれつきの)性癖, 傾向 «for, to, toward/to do, for doing»
e.g. a propensity for violence
e.g. with infinitive : their innate propensity to attack one another.
ORIGIN
late 16th century: from archaic propense (from Latin propensus ‘inclined’, past participle of propendere, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + pendere ‘hang’) + -ity.