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Proneness

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prone  (prn)
adj.
1. Lying with the front or face downward.
2. Having a tendency; inclined: paper that is prone to yellowing; children who are prone to mischief.
adv.
In a prone manner: The patient was lying prone on the bed.
[Middle English, inclined, disposed, from Latin prnus, leaning forward; see per1 in Indo-European roots.]
pronely adv.
proneness n.
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Noun1.proneness - being disposed to do something; "accident proneness"
disposition - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"
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In the affair of love, which, out of strict conformity with the Stoic philosophy, we shall here treat as a disease, this proneness to relapse is no less conspicuous.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
The wandering whites who mingle for any length of time with the savages have invariably a proneness to adopt savage habitudes; but none more so than the free trappers.
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In Hester Prynne's instance, however, as not unfrequently in other cases, her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform, but without undergoing that gripe about the neck and confinement of the head, the proneness to which was the most devilish characteristic of this ugly engine.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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