propensity

tendance, propension

Tendance à agir d’une certaine façon ou à préférer quelque chose.

En anglais simple : A tendency to behave in a certain way or to prefer something.

• He has a propensity to worry.
• The study examined children's propensity for taking risks.
• Her propensity to laugh helped ease the tension.

Comment l'utiliser : a propensity for something/doing something (He has a propensity for taking risks.); a propensity to do something (She has a propensity to interrupt people.)

Synonymes : tendency, inclination, bent

Contraires : aversion

Expressions courantes : propensity for violence, propensity to spend, natural propensity