Definition of Propensity

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Definition of Propensity
	Propensity The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. Related Definitions: Being, Bent, Bias, Disposition, Do, Evil, Good, Natural, Of, Or, Propense, Quality, State, Tendency, The, To

Propensity Quotations

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.
Mary Wollstonecraft

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.
David Hume

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
Thorstein Veblen

There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Benjamin Haydon

Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Propensity Translations

propensity in German is Neigung

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