Predisposition is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PREDISPOSITION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an inclination
• a liability or tendency to suffer from a particular condition, hold a particular attitude, or act in a particular way
• The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.
• Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease.
• susceptibility to a pathogen
• an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way
• a disposition in advance to react in a particular way
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to dispose in advance

Words related to PREDISPOSITION

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How to use PREDISPOSITION in a sentence

• If it is intended to breed by her, she should be very carefully chosen and proved to be free from any serious fault or predisposition to disease.
• Bosio Macomer was a refined man, not only by education and outward contact with the refinements he sought in others, but within himself and by predisposition of nature.
• It is evident from the foregoing that the truly sublime is reason, the moral nature of man, his predisposition and destination, which point beyond the present world.
• This we take to be the main factor in the causation of contracted heels, especially with a predisposition already present in the foot itself.
• And we must guard against any undue predisposition to consider the robberies in a lump.
• That there was a strong predisposition on the part of the Jamaica planters to defraud their labourers of their wages.
• He disliked the dandy with a strong predisposition to like the man.
• I sometimes wonder if the new life could be begun with a predisposition towards amity, what the result would be.
• We must first free our bodies from disease and predisposition to disease.
• No doubt there exists a predisposition to this condition for it is of such frequent occurrence in heavy draft types of horses.
• Both he and the bird he detested were beset with a constitutional predisposition to rend and destroy.
• It should be further added that there is evidence that a powerful predisposition to this vice is transmitted to the children of those who have themselves been guilty of it.
• No amount of hopefulness, of zest for life, of thirst for opportunity, of genius for intellectual productiveness will counteract such predisposition to decay.
• In all the cases reported there seemed to be no doubt of the weak character and predisposition to crime.
• There is such a quality of body and mind as the quality of predisposition to action and industry.
• For instance, the effect of an original predisposition may be destroyed by an accidental shock.
• I earnestly believe that no one ever so effectually controlled the predisposition to slumber as did this woman.
• This is apt to be expressed in uncertain emotional states, quick tempers, and a predisposition to convulsions.
• At the same time, it must be remembered that the officers of these crafts were not selected because of their pre-disposition to piety.
• How children feel a predisposition for the studies of astronomy, or mechanics, or architecture, or natural history, is that secret in nature we have not guessed.
• The varying predisposition to infection which undoubtedly exists and may be inherited represents such a variation.

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