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

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

Fitness remains a concern for the 34-year-old, with his combative style hardly conducive to a player of such injury proneness.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2016

It is certain that Caligula intended to enter Britain; but his quick temper and proneness to change, or the unsuccessful attempts against the Germans, prevented him.

From Old English Chronicles by Various