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noun

proclivity

a natural inclination

In a sentence

Six example sentences with proclivity, each labelled with its topic.

  • Twin studies suggest a proclivity for risk shows up early, long before anyone has money or a license to lose.

    Psychology

  • Her proclivity for minor keys shows in every album; even the love songs somehow arrive sounding like farewells.

    Music

  • Players show a proclivity for hoarding potions, finishing a forty-hour campaign with two hundred unused and none ever opened.

    Gaming

  • The scouting report noted his proclivity for spinning toward the baseline, and the defense was waiting there every time.

    Basketball

  • My grandmother's proclivity for butter meant every vegetable arrived at the table glistening, and nobody ever complained.

    Cooking

  • The author's proclivity for sentences that run a full page is the first thing every reader mentions and the last thing they forgive.

    Literature

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