(n.) The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings demonstrated that feelings of self-confidence, an easy-going disposition, a disinclination to use avoidance coping, and the availability of family support operate jointly to protect individuals from negative psychological consequences of life stress.
(2) It will take a significant deterioration in the economic picture for me to be disinclined to move ahead.” #BlackLivesMatter and so should the high unemployment rate Read more “Any Fed tightening cycle when it does occur is likely to be very modest.
(3) I don’t think that the only way you can have a good and constructive relationship with China is by behaving in that sort of craven way.” Patten, who is now chancellor of the University of Oxford, said Britain’s “increasing disinclination” to inject principles into its foreign policy was enabling the ever-more repressive and aggressive policies coming out of Beijing.
(4) High scale scores describe fearful, emotionally labile individuals who profess to be more sensitive than others and unable or disinclined to persist in the face of difficulty.
(5) Regrettably, no doubt, for those who are keener on the purification of public discourse, online censors seem disinclined to regulate with any consistency.
(6) Disinclination among the parents was the main reason for absenteeism and could be related to ignorance about the clinic.
(7) We have not had the sort of bad experience that they had in parts of Germany or in eastern Europe with intelligence services and, for that reason, I think people are disinclined to believe that those who have those responsibilities are misusing them."
(8) The town was disinclined to cooperate with the border patrol because residents felt they were harassing them.
(9) Hayden, of course, became a very effective governor general, disinclined to interfere in the affairs of parliament.
(10) EH patients, particularly those experiencing emotional distress, appear to have patterns of self-presentation that could present an obstacle to effective communication with their physicians, and this difficulty may be amplified by physicians' disinclination to probe for emotional difficulty.
(11) James Acaster Pleasance Courtyard , 6-28 August You may be disinclined to gamble at the fringe, and look instead for a home banker.
(12) Inner-city patients are, increasingly, black and Hispanic patients, and these patients are more likely to be underinsured or uninsured, to be functionally illiterate in English, to be disinclined to seek health care, and to be less capable of following a prescribed regimen than the populace as a whole.
(13) In seeking to define what he calls "postliberalism" , Goodhart attacks both the economic liberalism of the 80s and New Labour's disinclination to reverse it.
(14) A number of those around the table shared their own personal stories of the difficulties they had faced themselves over a loved one's disinclination to eat or preference for sweet foods of no nutritional value.
(15) The conversation left her disinclined to bother complaining when the crew started using the prominence of her nipples through her jumper to guess the temperature outside, assuming that would be deemed "banter" too.
(16) Photograph: PR Bradbury, a lecturer in young people and sport at Loughborough University, interviewed dozens of current and former players for his report and found that black footballers are especially disinclined to think of coaching as a potential option for when their career winds down.
(17) The public will be a little weary, I think, of being taken to the ballot box twice in 12 months.” But the attorney general said he was “disinclined” to pair the same-sex marriage vote with a referendum on recognising Indigenous Australians in the constitution, which he said had an “emotional significance” for society.
(18) I did.” Vernon said that she was now utterly disinclined to write with honesty about her life experiences and admitted it took therapy to help her get over it.
(19) If Cameron is disinclined to stir this particular hornets' nest (was his own phone ever hacked, incidentally?)
(20) Johnson, backed by testimony from her family at trial, said she was at home with her mother and three children, disinclined to go out on Halloween.
Propensity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
(2) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
(3) Three strains of C. burnetii were studied because of the purported propensity of each strain to cause acute or chronic disease and to be resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
(4) Thus, an abnormality of neutrophil oxidative metabolism cannot explain the propensity to bacterial infections in sickle cell disease.
(5) The stroma has a propensity to accumulate fluid and to create macroscopic cystic spaces.
(6) Myelography and cytology studies are necessary in the evaluation of all newly diagnosed patients with medulloblastoma and may also be indicated for patients with other brain tumors with a known propensity for dissemination.
(7) Where UV radiation is restricted, individual propensity to rickets within a given Asian community is mainly determined by dietary factors.
(8) The polymorphisms seen could provide useful linkage markers in locating the chromosomal sites of the genetic loci responsible for raised blood pressure in the SHR and the propensity to strokes in the SHRSP.
(9) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(10) The propensity for narcolepsy, a clinical sleep disorder of unknown etiology, is virtually totally included within the HLA-DR2,DQw1 (DRw15,DQw6) phenotype.
(11) Patients with well-differentiated adenosquamous carcinoma persisted in having a worse prognosis (58.3% ten-year survival rate), compared with adenocarcinoma (84.3% ten-year survival rate), which was explained by the propensity of adenosquamous carcinoma to deeply invade the myometrium.
(12) College students completed a 17-item scale measuring the "propensity to argue controversial topics" and 7 other nominal-scale independent variables.
(13) Mating propensity in eight all-female laboratory lines was measured.
(14) In assortative mating systems modifiers favoring reduced assortment propensities tend to increase.
(15) However, CGS 19755 did not show a unique propensity for learning and memory disruption compared to other anticonvulsants.
(16) The results of ecological studies appear to be more consistent that those dealing with "specific" psychosomatic disorders and suggest that man has a general psychophysical propensity to disease.
(17) The propensity for specific fragmentation of peptide D seems to be correlated to the repetitive sequence, (Gly-Ser)2.
(18) This work clearly demonstrates the greater propensity of trans-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) to form histone-histone and histone-DNA crosslinks compared with the antitumor active cis isomer, which binds first to the DNA and only forms crosslinks to the histones when the nucleosome core is heavily loaded with platinum.
(19) The rapid progression of disease, the high incidence of micrometastases (over 80%) at diagnosis, and the propensity of hematogenous spread to the bone marrow and the central nervous system (CNS) as well as the clinico-pathologic 'clusters' associated with particular presenting sites distinguish the pediatric forms of disease.
(20) Slower ventricular rates during atrial fibrillation would suggest an increased propensity for concealed conduction in the enhanced AV node conduction group than in the group with an accessory pathway.