Word Meanings - PROPENSITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. "A propensity to utter blasphemy." Macaulay. Syn. -- Disposition; bias; inclination; proclivity; proneness; bent; tendency.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPENSITY)

• Affection
• Influence
• condition
• state
• inclination
• bent
• mood
• humor
• feeling
• love
• desire
• propensity
• Appetite
• Passion
• proclivity
• propension
• appetency
• want
• craving
• disposition
• tendency
• proneness
• Bent
• Inclination
• angle
• direction
• bias
• determination
• intention
• prepossession
• predilection
• turn
• leaning
• Leaning
• Tendency
• partiality
• liking
• Proclivity
• gravitation

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROPENSITY)

• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to PROPENSITY)

• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• LEANING
  The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• CONTRADICTIVE
  Contradictory; inconsistent. -- Con`tra*dict"ive*ly, adv..
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• ANGLE
  A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses." Chaucer. 5. Etym: (more info) 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines; a corner; a nook. Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. To search the tenderest angles
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• LIKEROUS; LIKEROUSNESS
  See CHAUCER
• REPRESSIBLE
  Capable of being repressed.
• FEELINGLY
  In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• LEANLY
  Meagerly; without fat or plumpness.
• LIKABLE
  Such as can be liked; such as to attract liking; as, a likable person. Thackeray.
• CONDITIONAL
  Expressing a condition or supposition; as, a conditional word, mode, or tense. A conditional proposition is one which asserts the dependence of one categorical proposition on another. Whately. The words hypothetical and conditional may be . . .
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• PRIESTLIKE
  Priestly. B. Jonson.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• 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 .
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT