proneness

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The study also shows the chain of actions that can occur by theorizing OCD predicted boredom proneness, fear of missing out and inhibitory anxiety.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2024

"Grandiose narcissism has been linked to seeking admiration, manipulativeness, and proneness to hostility when being criticized."

From Salon • May 17, 2023

He surveyed 52 patients who had suffered either mild, moderate or severe TBI, finding that the presence and severity of head trauma predicted levels of boredom proneness.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

We should buck commercial considerations to the extent that we can and give the candidates’ competing visions of government as much scrutiny as their competing talents for quips or proneness to gaffes.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2019

The proneness toward moralizing, toward formal didacticism, can be best of all corrected by the use of choice literature.

From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)