proneness
proneness is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness.
- 2.Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.
- 3.Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accubation
- accumbent
- affect
- aid
- all
- alluvial
- applicability
- aptitude
- aptness
- area
- azimuth
- back
- beam
- bend
- bent
- bias
- bid
- billiard
- bowling
- butte
- calculated
- calm
- carry
- cast
- conatus
- conduce
- conducive
- conduciveness
- contribute
- couch
- couchant
- cricket
- croquet
- dead
- decumbence
- decumbency
- decumbent
- direction
- discumbency
- dispose
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Definition-first questions whose answer is proneness.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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