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" If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech."
Ann Coulter

Meaning of "proclivity" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROCLIVITY

From Latin prōclīvitās, from prōclīvis steep, from pro-1 + clīvus a slope.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PROCLIVITY

prəˈklɪvɪtɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROCLIVITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Proclivity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROCLIVITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of proclivity in the English dictionary

The definition of proclivity in the dictionary is a tendency or inclination.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROCLIVITY

acclivity · activity · captivity · conductivity · connectivity · creativity · declivity · hyperactivity · inactivity · interactivity · nativity · negativity · positivity · productivity · radioactivity · reactivity · relativity · resistivity · selectivity · sensitivity

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROCLIVITY

proclaim · proclaim from the housetops · proclaimant · proclaimer · proclamation · proclamatory · proclisis · proclitic · proclive · proclivities · Proclus · Procne · procoelous · proconsul · proconsular · proconsulate · proconsulship · Procopius · procrastinate · procrastination

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROCLIVITY

absorptivity · adaptivity · additivity · associativity · cooperativity · diffusivity · exclusivity · extravehicular activity · gravity · hypersensitivity · insensitivity · motivity · objectivity · physical activity · reflectivity · special theory of relativity · subjectivity · superconductivity · thermal conductivity · transitivity · transmissivity

Synonyms and antonyms of proclivity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROCLIVITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «proclivity» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «proclivity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROCLIVITY

Find out the translation of proclivity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of proclivity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «proclivity» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

倾向
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

proclividad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

proclivity
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

झुकाव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الميل
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

склонность
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

propensão
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

স্বাভাবিক প্রবণতা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

propension
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Perolehan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Neigung
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

傾向
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

성향
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Proclivity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khuynh hướng
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

போக்கு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

प्रक्रियाशीलता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

eğilim
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

tendenza
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

skłonność
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

схильність
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

înclinație
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ροπή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

neiging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

proclivity
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

proclivity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of proclivity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROCLIVITY»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of proclivity
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about proclivity

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2 QUOTES WITH «PROCLIVITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word proclivity.
1
Ann Coulter
If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
2
William Kirby
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROCLIVITY»

Discover the use of proclivity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to proclivity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Proclivity
There is little difference between what a child goes through when they are kidnapped by a sexual predator and what others feel enduring long periods of sexual abuse, secrets and threats at the hands of family and friends.
Bonnie Kern, Bonnie Kern, 2007
2
Proclivity to WebEx: An Empirical Investigation of User ...
This study examined constructs found in previous acceptance and behavior studies.
Robert A. Burdwell, 2006
3
Proclivity
Proclivity is an anthology of human experiences illustrated through five short stories.
Tanisca M. Wilson, 2012
4
Analysis of Senior Management Teams that Have Demonstrated a ...
ABSTRACT The majority of organisations that survive in the UK economy do not have a proclivity for growth. The main objective of the leaders of these 'lifestyle' organisations is to create the status desired and to generate sufficient income to ...
David Thomas, 2010
5
Critical Reasoning in Contemporary Culture: Opacity, Theory, ...
Creative people are likely to be those with a legislative proclivity. The reason, quite simply, is that creativity requires a person to see things in new ways, and people are more likely to see things in new ways if they want to do so. Others may ...
Richard A. Talaska, 1992
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The Proclivity of Civilised Woman to Uterine Displacements; ...
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M. U. O'Sullivan, 2009
7
Neuroeconomics and the Firm
The following section, conducts the literature review and is subdivided into sections on (1) the entrepreneur as driven – in search of entrepreneurial proclivity, which seeks to understand what forces drive entrepreneurial proclivity; (2) the ...
Angela A. Stanton, Mellani Day, Isabell M. Welpe, 2010
8
Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender
To hope to screen out the abusive male guards from the nonabusive ones was deemed unreasonable, since “some male officers possess a trait . . . a proclivity for sexually abusive conduct—that cannot be ascertained by means other than ...
Olga Gershenson, Barbara Penner, 2009
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The Proclivity of Civilised Woman to Uterine Displacements: ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
M U O'Sullivan, 2012
10
Sexual Harassment Proclivity of Men: Relationship to Values
The purpose of this study was to determine if men who have a high proclivity toward sexual harassment differ in their ranking of personal values from men who have a low proclivity toward sexual harassment.
Eric R. Olsen, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROCLIVITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term proclivity is used in the context of the following news items.
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Chat about Safe Harbour all you like, the NSA's still the stumbling …
This may go against the National Security Agency's proclivity for data slurping. The NSA is also indirectly behind another perceived threat to ... «The Register, Jul 15»
2
Blessie Gotingco's killer could have been locked up for good
[and] has a predilection for, and a proclivity towards, sexual offending". He was widely psychologically-profiled as a threat to prepubescent girls. «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
3
Jill Scott On Bill Cosby: He's In One Of The 'Most Dangerous Positions'
“I've watched – let's say for instance, Phil Spector. I don't know if that was a proclivity or a moment of insanity, or whatever it was. But he killed a ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
NRL Lowdown Round 21: Who's on the cusp and who's on the block …
Who's not: The Roosters might have ended up winning by 25 points against the Tigers, but they again exhibited a curious proclivity to being ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
5
Transformation of civilisation was his only aim
A lot of us called him Kalam Iyer, given his proclivity for uncomplicated vegetarian food. We strolled along the garden and talked at length about ... «Mumbai Mirror, Jul 15»
6
Rebecca Coulson: The top five reasons we love ranking things…
Assigning orders to comparable things is a funny – but universal – proclivity, isn't it? I may have felt bordering-on-feminist indignation on ... «Conservative Home, Jul 15»
7
Trump Interview: 'Admire Palin,' Media 'Amazingly Dishonest'
Trump and Scholla discussed recent events involving Planned Parenthood, the Chattanooga attack, and the Iran deal. They noted the proclivity ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
8
How Donald Trump Hurts The GOP Going Into The First Round Of …
With over a year to go in the long chase to the White House, Trump's wave of popularity, coupled with his proclivity to spout whatever nonsense happens to be ... «Bustle, Jul 15»
9
Poly Bridge Early Access review
You look at it, and you think it's sort of cute, it looks a little silly, but the aesthetic and game's proclivity for whimsy belie the complexity hidden underneath the ... «PCGamesN, Jul 15»
10
How traditional retailers can compete with e-commerce firms
When it comes to shopping, the millennials—also called the screen generation given their proclivity for always staring at the screen—want to ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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