predisposition

See also: prédisposition

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *per-

Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-

Proto-Indo-European *-i

Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?

Proto-Italic *prai

Proto-Italic *prai-

Latin prae-lbor.

Middle English pre-

English pre-

English disposition

English predisposition

From pre- + disposition.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpriːdɪspəˈzɪʃ(ə)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpridɪspəˈzɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

predisposition (countable and uncountable, plural predispositions)

1. The state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a behavior or a health condition.

Synonyms

• proclivity, propensity, see also Thesaurus:predilection

Derived terms

• predispositional

Translations

the state of being predisposed

• Bulgarian: предразположение (bg) n (predrazpoloženie)
• Catalan: predisposició f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 傾向 / 倾向 (zh) or 傾嚮 / 倾向 (zh) (qīngxiàng)

• Czech: predispozice f
• Finnish: taipumus (fi), alttius (fi)
• French: prédisposition (fr) f
• Georgian: მიდრეკილება (midreḳileba)
• German: Veranlagung (de) f, Neigung (de) f
• Greek: προδιάθεση (el) f (prodiáthesi)
• Italian: predisposizione (it) f, diatesi (it) f, tendenza (it) f
• Japanese: 傾向 (ja) (けいこう, keikō)
• Latin: praedispositio
• Macedonian: предрасположе́ние n (predraspoložénie), скло́ност f (sklónost), предрасполо́женост f (predraspolóženost)
• Polish: predyspozycja (pl) f, zadatek (pl) m
• Portuguese: predisposição f
• Romanian: predispoziție (ro) f
• Russian: предрасполо́женность (ru) f (predraspolóžennostʹ), скло́нность (ru) f (sklónnostʹ)
• Spanish: predisposición (es) f
• Swedish: predisposition (sv) c
• Thai: ปัจจัยโน้มเอียง
• Turkish: yatkınlık; eğilim

See also

• predisposition on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• diathesis

Finnish

Noun

predisposition

1. genitive singular of predispositio

Swedish

Noun

predisposition c

1. predisposition (to a behavior or health condition)

Declension

Declension of predisposition

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	predisposition	predispositions
	definite	predispositionen	predispositionens
plural	indefinite	predispositioner	predispositioners
	definite	predispositionerna	predispositionernas

Related terms

• predisponera
• predisponerad

See also

• disponera
• disposition

References

• “predisposition”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “predisposition”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “predisposition”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)