Word Meanings - PREDISPOSITION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,

Additional info about word: PREDISPOSITION

1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREDISPOSITION)

• Predilection
• Prepossession
• preference
• leaning
• liking
• fondness
• bias
• inclination
• predisposition
• tendency
• prejudice
• partiality
• Prejudice
• prejudgment
• unfairness
• injury
• harm
• impairment
• detriment
• disadvantage
• damage
• Tendency
• Vergency
• proneness
• gravitation
• drift
• scope
• I aim
• disposition
• proclivity
• attraction
• conductiveness
• course

Related words: (words related to PREDISPOSITION)

• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• COURSED
  1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
  See CHAUCER
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• LEANLY
  Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
• COURSE
  1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
• LIKABLE
  Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.
• LIKIN
  A Chinese provincial tax levied at many inland stations upon imports or articles in transit. "Likin," which used to be regarded as illegal, as one of the many, "squeezes" imposed by the mandarins, is, in Jamieson's opinion, just as legal as any
• PARTIALITY
  1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
• SCOPE
  1. That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope."
• SCOPELOID
  Like or pertaining to fishes of the genus Scopelus, or family Scopelodæ, which includes many small oceanic fishes, most of which are phosphorescent. -- n.
• DRIFTPIN
  A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
• PREDILECTION
  A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.
• DRIFTLESS
  Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
• PREJUDGMENT
  The act of prejudging; decision before sufficient examination.
• LEAN-TO
  Having only one slope or pitch; -- said of a roof. -- n.
• PROCLIVITY
  1. Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency. "A proclivity to steal." Abp. Bramhall. 2. Readiness; facility; aptitude. He had such a dexterous proclivity as his teachers were fain to restrain his forwardness. Sir H. Wotton.
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• WELL-LIKING
  Being in good condition. They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age, and shall be fat and well-liking. Bk. of Com. Prayer .
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• OTOSCOPEIC
  Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.
• ENDOSCOPE
  An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
• MICROSPECTROSCOPE
  A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
• RECOURSEFUL
  Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.