What's the difference between proclivity and propensity?

Proclivity


Definition:

  • (n.) Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.
  • (n.) Readiness; facility; aptitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This suggests that isolation increases sexual proclivity.
  • (2) Although one person may seem more sensitive than another, the difference may lie in a greater proclivity to complain.
  • (3) Infants' proclivity to imitate was used to investigate early memory.
  • (4) In general, proclivity and arousal had different effects on behavior.
  • (5) The proclivity for complications to evolve varies with age, brain areas involved, whether the event is hemorrhagic or nonhemorrhagic in nature, and the presence of concomitant systemic disease.
  • (6) As a result, the data suggest that such cells express an increased proclivity to undergo metaplastic change and complete neoplastic transformation.
  • (7) At the time the tabloids were nearly herniating themselves in order to expose lesser celebrities' chemical proclivities – the Sun went to the bother of flying Tulisa Contostavlos to both Las Vegas and then LA as part of a sting operation that eventually extracted the information that she knew someone who could get hold of some coke – but the matter quietly blew over.
  • (8) Through the flexibility of the membrane prism is a definite advantage, because of its proclivity to reduce visual acuity and increase aberrations its prescription for adults often must be limited to only one eye.
  • (9) Inasmuch as the colons of these patients have a clear proclivity to neoplastic transformation and recurrence, subtotal colectomy as the initial curative colon procedure is practiced.
  • (10) Later, he developed the Substance Abuse Proclivity Scale (SAP; MacAndrew, 1986), specifically for screening younger males, using adolescent and young adult substance misusing and nonmisusing males 16 to 22 years of age.
  • (11) This study investigated cross-modal transfer in infants by their proclivity to respond differentially to novel and familiar stimuli after familiarization in a different sensory modality.
  • (12) Choroid plexus neoplasm may be a manifestation of the inherited proclivity to tumor development in the breast cancer-sarcoma syndrome.
  • (13) It does not appear to be associated with a particular proclivity to evolve into carcinoma and short-term follow-up suggests that excisional biopsy is probably adequate therapy.
  • (14) They maintain that "one has within oneself proclivity toward growth and unity of personality ... and an automatic thrust toward expression" of these qualities (Yalom, 1980, p. 9).
  • (15) Meanwhile Igor Mladenovic writes: "Based on what you've seen so far in the tournament, would you say Becker has started implementing any visible modifications to Djokovic's game, especially with regards to his proclivity to finish points at the net?
  • (16) Entitlement and narcissistic proclivities are viewed according to the developmental history as well as the clinical manifestations (intensity, frequency, duration, and spread).
  • (17) These points are illustrated by discussions of how the structures of headgroup- and backbone-modified phospholipid analogues influence their proclivities to form distinct types of hydrated solid phases, dehydrated "crystralline" phases and nonlamellar phases.
  • (18) We conclude that MIP-101 has a high tumorigenic and invasive potential but a low metastatic proclivity, except when grown in the peritoneum, and that pretreatment of tumor-bearing animals with CEA affects the metastatic proclivity.
  • (19) He was stripped of his paternal dignity as details of his sexual proclivities were extracted.
  • (20) But the apparent disconnect between the film's subject and the technological proclivities of its key crew provoked some comment following the film's cinematic release.

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.