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Antonyms for proclivity

Grammar : Noun
Spell : proh-kliv-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : proʊˈklɪv ɪ ti


Definition of proclivity

Origin :
  • 1590s, from Middle French proclivité or directly from Latin proclivitatem (nominative proclivitas) "a tendency, predisposition, propensity," from proclivis "prone to," literally "sloping, inclined," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + clivus "a slope," from PIE *klei-wo-, suffixed form of *klei "to lean" (see lean (v.)).
  • noun inclination, tendency
Example sentences :
  • Our proclivity to details cannot quite degrade our life and divest it of poetry.
  • Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • My proclivity for "prying into things" manifested itself there.
  • Extract from : « Between the Lines » by Henry Bascom Smith
  • The proclivity of the natural man is to domineer or to be subservient.
  • Extract from : « Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments » by Various
  • But at all events she was entirely free from Miss Delia Wall's proclivity.
  • Extract from : « Beaumaroy Home from the Wars » by Anthony Hope
  • The proclivity to secession uninterruptedly increases from this point on.
  • Extract from : « The Brothers' War » by John Calvin Reed
  • As for the latter, we were not long in discovering their proclivity.
  • Extract from : « The Bandolero » by Mayne Reid
  • In all ages, and in all countries, this proclivity of the female sex has been apparent.
  • Extract from : « The Funny Philosophers » by George Yellott
  • This proclivity on their part is not out of keeping with our theory.
  • Extract from : « The Soul of the Far East » by Percival Lowell
  • The frog has a proclivity for squeezing into holes and cracks, or beneath objects on the ground.
  • Extract from : « Field Study of Kansas Ant-Eating Frog » by Henry S. Fitch
  • It was not yet day, but the old woman, with that proclivity to early rising characteristic of advancing years, was already astir.
  • Extract from : « His "Day In Court" » by Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

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