predisposition
the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
Medicine/Medical. tendency to a condition or quality, usually based on the combined effects of genetic and environmental factors.
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- pre·dis·po·si·tion·al, adjective
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How to use predisposition in a sentence
Maybe running lots of ultramarathons adds a few months of life expectancy for 99 percent of us, but shortens it by a decade for an unlucky fraction of a percent who have some sort of underlying issue or genetic predisposition.
There’s New Evidence on Heart Health in Endurance Athletes | mmirhashem | August 7, 2021 | Outside OnlineIt could be a person’s lucky number, there could be some weird human predisposition to these digits.
We have an innate predisposition for music, there’s no question about that.
Few of the cancer-stricken family members were related by blood to the Goolsbys — some had married into the family — which, to Andrea, ruled out the possibility that the cancers were caused by a genetic predisposition.
“You can have a genetic predisposition to depression,” Gotlib says.
Teen depression linked to how the brain processes rewards | Alison Pearce Stevens | March 18, 2021 | Science News For Students
“In general, loneliness is more a personal predisposition than an objective social condition,” he said.
He flatly stated that sexual orientation is a matter of biological predisposition.
Basso said Alleman had a genetic predisposition for cardiac problems, as both of his parents died of heart attacks in their 50s.
When was the first time I realized this was beyond a predisposition to anxiety?
Richard Russo Talks About New Memoir “Elsewhere” And His Mother’s Illness | Jane Ciabattari | November 12, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTBut his ideological predisposition matters less than budgetary reality.
Peter Beinart: Romney Follows Obama’s Foreign Policy Script | Peter Beinart | October 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFor what less than disease can we call a necessity of error and a predisposition to sin and sickness?
Aids to Reflection | Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBut the good man's plans could not prevail against his nephew's predisposition for the land.
The Fourth Estate, vol.1 | Armando Palacio ValdsThis statement may be interpreted to refer to a predisposition rather than to an inherited characteristic.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtIt cannot be disputed that man bears within himself, in his personality, a predisposition for divinity.
The Aesthetical Essays | Friedrich SchillerHence, especially if there be any pre-existing uterine disease, or a predisposition thereto, miscarriage is a serious thing.
The Physical Life of Woman: | Dr. George H Napheys
British Dictionary definitions for predisposition
/ (ˌpriːdɪspəˈzɪʃən) /
the condition of being predisposed
med susceptibility to a specific disease: See diathesis
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