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All predisposition synonyms

pre·dis·po·si·tion
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noun predisposition

  • actuation — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • leaning — the act or state of leaning; inclination: The tower has a pronounced lean.
  • actuations — to incite or move to action; impel; motivate: actuated by selfish motives.
  • onesidedness — The property of being onesided.
  • assuetude — the state of being familiar with or used to something
  • inclination — a disposition or bent, especially of the mind or will; a liking or preference: Much against his inclination, he was forced to resign.
  • knowhow — knowledge of how to do something; faculty or skill for a particular activity; expertise: Designing a computer requires a lot of know-how.
  • intuitiveness — perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
  • guessing — The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.
  • druthers — one's own way, choice, or preference: If I had my druthers, I'd dance all night.
  • instinct — an inborn pattern of activity or tendency to action common to a given biological species.
  • narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
  • hangup — Alternative spelling of hang-up.
  • make-up — the style or manner in which something is made; form; build.
  • liableness — Quality of being liable; liability.
  • impulsion — the act of impelling, driving onward, or pushing.
  • geese — a plural of goose.
  • bent — Bent is the past tense and past participle of bend.
  • bias — Bias is a tendency to prefer one person or thing to another, and to favour that person or thing.
  • goose — any of numerous wild or domesticated, web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genera Anser and Branta, most of which are larger and have a longer neck and legs than the ducks.
  • habit — an acquired behavior pattern regularly followed until it has become almost involuntary: the habit of looking both ways before crossing the street.
  • motivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
  • illiberality — narrowminded; bigoted.
  • headset — Radio, Telephony. a device consisting of one or two earphones with a headband for holding them over the ears and sometimes with a mouthpiece attached.
  • disposition — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
  • in sight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.

verb predisposition

  • jaundice — Also called icterus. Pathology. yellow discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, etc., due to an increase of bile pigments in the blood, often symptomatic of certain diseases, as hepatitis. Compare physiologic jaundice.
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