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A fancy word for the excuse your personality gives before you do the thing again.
means A natural tendency or inclination to behave in a particular way.
from From Latin propensus, 'inclined' or 'hanging forward,' the past participle of propendere — pro- ('forward') plus pendere ('to hang'). The image is literal: something leaning or tipping toward an outcome before it happens, like a scale weighted on one side. English borrowed it in the 1600s, keeping that sense of a built-in lean.
- origin
- from Latin propensus, meaning leaning forward
- not quite
- stronger than a tendency, weaker than a compulsion
- statistics use
- propensity scores predict behavior before it happens
- honest twin
- usually precedes the word for something risky