Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being prone.
- noun The state of bending downward: as, the proneness of beasts that look downward: opposed to the erectness of man.
- noun The state of lying with the face or front downward: contrary to supineness.
- noun Descent: declivity: as, the proneness of a hill.
- noun Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propensity; disposition: as, proneness to self-gratification or to self-justification.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward.
- noun The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to
supineness . - noun Descent; declivity.
- noun Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality or state of being
prone , or ofbending downward ; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man. - noun The state of lying with the
face down. - noun
Descent ;declivity ; as, the proneness of a hill. - noun
Inclination of mind, heart, or temper;propension ;disposition ; as, proneness to self-gratification.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun being disposed to do something
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Examples
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So the study then, you know, the 800 members of the clergy -- nuns, priests, brothers -- were studied, and they were specifically asked about stress, stress being defined as a proneness to depression and anxiety.
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The generalisations of philosophy go to improve our methods so that we may have greater proneness for sense of delight and greater possibility for sense delight.
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And I know others, others in the SAME FAMILY, who are convinced that those spankings (from the same adults) made a significant dent in their self-esteem, ability to trust, proneness to shame, and so on.
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Social network analysis of developer contributions to predict software quality, dependency structure and fault proneness of individual software components are just some of the pieces of the immensely complex puzzle.
Sramana Mitra: Free Apps, Ad-Supported Business Models are Dangerous! Sramana Mitra 2011
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But Silas chose the factual scheme of death, a choice given to the alternately calming and brutal representations of death relative to the viewer's proneness to emotional and aesthetic delicacy.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to ad just to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries.
Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech Chris Weigant 2011
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But Silas chose the factual scheme of death, a choice given to the alternately calming and brutal representations of death relative to the viewer's proneness to emotional and aesthetic delicacy.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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It is a sad fact that, because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to ad just to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch anti-revolutionaries.
Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech Chris Weigant 2011
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But Silas chose the factual scheme of death, a choice given to the alternately calming and brutal representations of death relative to the viewer's proneness to emotional and aesthetic delicacy.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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In a fascinating long-term study, Ms. Tangney and Ms. Dearing assessed shame-proneness in 380 fifth-graders and then followed up years later.
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