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

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

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

The question now arises: By what measures, or through what influences, if any, can such proneness to nervous diatheses be avoided?

From Insanity Its Causes and Prevention by Stearns, Henry Putnam