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," Harjunen observed.

From Salon • May 17, 2023

Studies conducted during the coronavirus pandemic also found that individuals high in boredom proneness had a greater tendency to break the rules of social distancing.

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

In him were blended two qualities—vigorous activity and proneness to austere meditation—rarely combined in such measure in one person.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin