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Keywords: Inclined, Leaning, Disposition, Tendency, Evil

Related Terms: Delusion, Influence, Pessimism, Aggression, Antisocial, Arouse, Assertive, Attitude, Bias, Consider, Deliberate, Discreet, Distrust, Doubt, Gloat, Habit, Hypnotism, Inclination, Instinct, Motivation, Motive, Nightmare, Prejudice, Prepossess, Profound, Rational, Seem, Sentiment, Suspicious, Tendency, Uncertain, Uneasy, Worse, Affirmations, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Fundamental Attribution Error, Attitudes, Self-Perception Theory, Cognitive Dissonance, Rationalization, Reactivity, Self-Serving Bias, False Awakening, Lucid Dream, Focus, Lucid Dreaming, Concentration, Defense Mechanisms, Nivarana, Posthypnotic Suggestion

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The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.

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In the Chou and Fasman secondary structure prediction, the measure of a residue's tendency to assume a given structure.

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The extent to which an economic agent is inclined to use income for a particular purpose, such as the (marginal or average) propensity to import, or propensity to consume, measured as the fraction of income (or of a change in income, if marginal) devoted to such an activity.

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an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"

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