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inclination

[in-kluh-ney-shuhn] / ˌɪn kləˈneɪ ʃən /




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Participants completed the Football Supporters Fanaticism Scale, a 13-item questionnaire measuring two aspects of fandom: "Inclination to Violence" and "Sense of Belongingness."

From Science Daily • Nov. 11, 2025

Inclination leads him to history, philosophy, and literature, not polemic.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2015

Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

I will only leave you to judge if his Inclination to Peace is blameable.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von




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