Word Meanings - PRONENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man. 2. The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness. 3. Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.

Additional info about word: PRONENESS

1. The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man. 2. The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness. 3. Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill. 4. Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRONENESS)

• Appetite
• Passion
• desire
• propensity
• proclivity
• inclination
• propension
• appetency
• want
• craving
• disposition
• tendency
• proneness
• Aptitude
• Fitness
• liability
• susceptibility
• suitableness
• readiness
• quickness
• cleverness
• Proclivity
• Tendency
• bias
• gravitation
• Vergency
• drift
• scope
• I aim
• predisposition
• leaning
• attraction
• conductiveness
• course

Related words: (words related to PRONENESS)

• DRIFTBOLT
  A bolt for driving out other bolts.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• FITNESS
  The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
• 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.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• 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.
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• 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."
• PROPENSION
  The quality or state of being propense; propensity. M. Arnold. Your full consent Gave wings to my propension. Shak.
• 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.
• DRIFTLESS
  Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
• APTITUDE
  1. A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. He seems to have had a peculiar aptitude for the management of irregular troops. Macaulay.
• 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.
• DRIFTAGE
  1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• 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
• 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.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• UNCLEAN
  1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy. 2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days. Num. xix. 11. 3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate
• STEREOMONOSCOPE
  An instrument with two lenses, by which an image of a single picture projected upon a screen of ground glass is made to present an appearance of relief, and may be viewed by several persons at once.
• ACHILLEAN
  Resembling Achilles, the hero of the Iliad; invincible.
• TELESPECTROSCOPE
  A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars. Lockyer.