proneness

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They surveyed more than 400 people and asked them to complete multiple measures assessing various levels of obsessive-compulsive behavior, fear of missing out, inhibitory anxiety, boredom proneness and PSU.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2024

More recent research has explored boredom as an inherent trait — known as boredom proneness — which has a whole host of negative associations.

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

Yet Kompany’s injury proneness means Guardiola has only three central defenders he can rely on for a position in which his system often requires this number.

From The Guardian • Apr. 16, 2018

When we consider its periodic monthly engorgements and the alternate hypertrophy and involution it undergoes in connexion with pregnancy, we can anticipate the special proneness of the uterus to new growths.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various