Associations to the word «Propensity»

Wiktionary

PROPENSITY, noun. A tendency, preference, or attraction.

Dictionary definition

PROPENSITY, noun. An inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity".
PROPENSITY, noun. A natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration".
PROPENSITY, noun. A disposition to behave in a certain way; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne