0 the fact of being likely to suffer from an illness or have a particular negative characteristic: --
His proneness to injury forced him to retire from professional football.
Once developed, empathic proneness remains subject to modification by experience.
These other positions do not seem to differ much in their proneness to error.
As an important transition, puberty presents social, psychological, and biological challenges to early adolescents that may amplify girls' preexisting proneness to depression.
At the same time, high risk proneness could contribute to depression if risky behavior results in negative consequences.
Both barley cultivars had weak proneness to lodge.
The association between proneness to anger and anger perception bias illustrates an important emotion-cognition connection.
It is this pronounced relative deprivation in the urban areas of rentier states that partly explains their proneness to rebel movements.
In the case of accident proneness, there are two kinds of evidence.
