propensity
pruh-PEN-sih-teenounMeaning a natural tendency to act in a certain way
Memory hook PRO-PEND: always LEANING toward it. Leave a shoe by the door and Rufus will find it within a minute; the puppy has a propensity for chewing shoes.
Our puppy has a propensity for chewing shoes.
In context Given his propensity to exaggerate, nobody believed Jonah when he claimed to have seen a bear in the school parking lot.
Similar tendency, leaning, bent, readiness
Opposite disinclination, aversion
From Latin propensus, “inclined,” from propendere (to hang forward): pro- (forward) + pendere (to hang).