Meaning and example
a natural inclination
He has a proclivity for exaggeration
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.851 places proclivity in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 80.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
cogentUncommon
- Known by
- 80.5%
powerfully persuasive
hackneyedUncommon
- Known by
- 80.5%
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
demagogueUncommon
- Known by
- 80.4%
a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
obsequiousUncommon
- Known by
- 80.9%
attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
acumenUncommon
- Known by
- 80.9%
a tapering point
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.