prone
adjective
having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable.
proneness
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a word derived from
prone.
Example Sentences
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They surveyed more than 400 people and asked them to complete multiple measures assessing various levels of obsessive-compulsive behavior, fear of missing out, inhibitory anxiety, boredom proneness and PSU.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 13, 2024
"Grandiose narcissism has been linked to seeking admiration, manipulativeness, and proneness to hostility when being criticized."
From Salon ● May 17, 2023
More recent research has explored boredom as an inherent trait — known as boredom proneness — which has a whole host of negative associations.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021
We should buck commercial considerations to the extent that we can and give the candidates’ competing visions of government as much scrutiny as their competing talents for quips or proneness to gaffes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2019
The mechanism of society requires constant correction in order to keep up the succession of order and progress through and despite this proneness to extravagance and loss of power.
From Modern Society by Julia Ward Howe
