- proclivity (for something/for doing something)
a natural desire or need that makes you tend to do something, often something bad synonym propensity(常指对坏事的)倾向,癖好 his sexual/criminal proclivities 他的性倾向/犯罪倾向 the government’s proclivity for spending money 政府花钱的倾向 Most regimes have self-destructive proclivities. 大多数政权都有自我毁灭的倾向。
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin proclivitas, from proclivis ‘inclined’, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + clivus ‘slope’.