0 the fact that someone is likely to behave in a particular way, especially a bad way:
He's well-known for his natural propensity for indiscretion.
[ + to infinitive ] She's inherited from her father a propensity to talk too much.
1 a tendency to behave in a particular way:
2 if someone has a propensity to behave in a particular way or prefer a particular thing, they are likely to behave in that way or like that thing:
Creative style is a designer's propensity to perform particular designing actions in particular ways, and to sequence them in particular ways.
This measure may be augmented by site directed mutagenesis, altering the helix content by changes in capping interactions or in propensities for helix formation.
Any exercise of the animal propensities, for whatever purpose, would have deleterious consequences in all aspects of life.
This serves to neutralize fully the propensity of moral hazard the insured might have.
Clearly, the definitional distinction here between habit (as a propensity or disposition) and behaviour (or action) is essential.
Arguably, the size of these genera may have been determined by a higher propensity to balloon causing isolation as a result of random dispersal.
Moreover, with increased farm size, there was an increased propensity for women farmers to adopt alley farming.
Although use of ephedrine is supported by history, it has limited efficacy and there are concerns about its propensity to cause fetal acidosis.
