0 the fact that someone likes something or likes to do something, especially something considered morally wrong -- 癖性；（尤指坏的）倾向
the sexual proclivities of celebrities 名人的性癖好
If voting today increases one's proclivity to vote in the future, then treatment and control conditions should vote at different rates in subsequent elections.
The proclivity for taking large risks, against heavy odds, was a fundamental characteristic of the early modern merchant.
Intelligences are always an interaction between biological proclivities and the opportunities for learning that exist in a culture.
On the other hand, she reanchors opera's fugitive proclivity in the intense materiality that makes up live performance, grounded in a network between singing, staging and audience reception.
Also, many such individuals demonstrate increased irritability, intense and lasting anger, and a proclivity toward outbursts of temper.
Essentially, genes provide proclivities and potentialities continuously involving feedback mechanisms with the environment throughout life, but especially during prenatal and early childhood.
A trained economist has a proclivity to see strategic interaction everywhere.
A relevant addendum involves considering research on children's orientation to teleological explanations of natural phenomena, which suggests that relatively rich cognitive proclivities might underlie religious thought.
