Tom had a propensity for looking the other way when spoken to.
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Propensity
//pɹəˈpɛnsɪti//
Synonyms for "propensity" (107 found)
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Related words (53)
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2 entriesrelated to
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58 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- ميل noun (tendency)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- meyil noun (tendency)
Bulgarian
2 entries- склонност noun (tendency)
- тенденция noun (tendency)
Catalan
1 entries- propensió noun (tendency)
Danish
2 entries- tendens noun (tendency)
- tilbøjelighed noun (tendency)
Dutch
3 entries- beheptheid noun (tendency)
- geneigdheid noun (tendency)
- neiging noun (tendency)
Finnish
1 entries- taipumus noun (tendency)
French
2 entries- propension noun (tendency)
- tendance noun (tendency)
Galician
1 entries- propensión noun (tendency)
Georgian
1 entries- მიდრეკილება noun (tendency)
German
2 entries- Neigung noun (tendency)
- Tendenz noun (tendency)
Greek
3 entries- κλίση noun (tendency)
- ροπή noun (tendency)
- τάση noun (tendency)
Hindi
1 entries- प्रवृत्ति noun (tendency)
Hungarian
1 entries- hajlam noun (tendency)
Icelandic
1 entries- tilhneigingu noun (tendency)
Italian
3 entries- inclinazione noun (tendency)
- propensione noun (tendency)
- tendenza noun (tendency)
Japanese
2 entries- 傾向 noun (tendency)
- 性向 noun (tendency)
Latin
1 entries- prōpensiō noun (tendency)
Macedonian
1 entries- скло́ност noun (tendency)
Malayalam
1 entries- പ്രവണത noun (tendency)
Norwegian
1 entries- tilbøyelighet noun (tendency)
Occitan
3 entries- predileccion noun (tendency)
- propension noun (tendency)
- tendéncia noun (tendency)
Persian
2 entries- میل noun (tendency)
- گرایش noun (tendency)
Polish
1 entries- skłonność noun (tendency)
Portuguese
4 entries- inclinação noun (tendency)
- predileção noun (tendency)
- predisposição noun (tendency)
- propensão noun (tendency)
Romanian
2 entries- predilecție noun (tendency)
- tendință noun (tendency)
Russian
1 entries- скло́нность noun (tendency)
Spanish
3 entries- inclinación f predisposición noun (tendency)
- propensión noun (tendency)
- tendencia noun (tendency)
Swedish
4 entries- benägenhet noun (tendency)
- böjelse noun (tendency)
- förkärlek noun (tendency)
- tendens noun (tendency)
Turkish
4 entries- eğilim noun (tendency)
- meyelan noun (tendency)
- meyil noun (tendency)
- temayül noun (tendency)
Ukrainian
1 entries- схильність noun (tendency)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Those who are against sex have a strange propensity to talk a lot about it.
Source: tatoeba (5966414)
Sami has propensity for violence.
Source: tatoeba (6129117)
Human beings have a natural propensity to fill silence.
Source: tatoeba (10690188)
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