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propensity

noun
/pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin prōpensitās. By surface analysis, propense (“inclined, disposed”) + -ity.

  1. learned borrowing from prōpensitās

Definitions

  1. An inclination, disposition, tendency, preference, or attraction.

    • He has a propensity for lengthy discussions of certain favorite topics.
    • I must own they do dearly delight in a judgment; and sorry am I that I cannot gratify this laudable propensity by specifying some peculiar evil incurred by Mr. Delawarr's ambition, or Lady Etheringhame's vanity.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at propensity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at propensity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at propensity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA