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Proneness meaning

  1. The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward.
  2. The state of lying with the face down.
  3. Descent; declivity.

Synonyms of Proneness

disposition

Related words

Other words often associated with Proneness or its synonyms:

exploit deed property temperament tendency effort disposal inclination feat nature attitude

Using Proneness

  • The main meaning on this page is: The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward. | The state of lying with the face down. | Descent; declivity.
  • Useful related words include: disposition.
  • In the example corpus, proneness often appears in combinations such as: victim proneness, proneness to, proneness or.

Context around Proneness

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 1 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

victim 5× davies 1× guilt 1×

Often after:

may 1× environmental 1×

Sentence patterns with Proneness

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

ben davies proneness to injury 1× of victim proneness 1× of victim proneness there have 1× statistics of proneness to crime 1× that guilt proneness may not 1× to victim proneness or some 1× victim proneness environmental theory 1× victim proneness or victim 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

quantification of victim 1× the 19 year 1× the choice to 1× this in turn 1× this suggests that 1× victim proneness environmental 1×

Common sentence endings:

between group competition 1× by skin color 1× its perpetrator together 1× just world phenomenon 1× of victim proneness 1× proneness to injury 1×

Words around Proneness

Just before it in the word index:

prone 1.184 pronator 5 pronation 5 pronaos 11 pronamel 2 pronab 3

Just after it in the word index:

prong 37 pronged 134 pronger 2 pronghorn 19 pronghorns 23 prongos 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aad 10 aadhar 10 aaro 10 abels 10 abidin 10 abidine 10

Corpus analysis for Proneness

  • In this selection, "proneness" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, victim, davies, guilt, may and environmental stand out and add context to how "proneness" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include ben davies proneness to injury and of victim proneness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "proneness" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with proneness

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Quantification of victim-proneness There have been some studies recently to quantify the real existence of victim-proneness. (18 words)

Victim proneness or victim blaming can be a form of fundamental attribution error, and more specifically, the just-world phenomenon. (20 words)

Victim proneness Environmental theory The environmental theory posits that the location and context of the crime bring the victim of the crime and its perpetrator together. (26 words)

Longer example sentences

The choice to use victim facilitation as opposed to "victim proneness" or some other term is that victim facilitation is not blaming the victim, but rather the interactions of the victim that make him/her vulnerable to a crime. (39 words)

The 19-year-old can play on either side of the defence which is also a plus for the North Londoners given their first-choice left-back Ben Davies' proneness to injury. (32 words)

This in turn skews the statistics of proneness to crime within their communities, thus leaving the police with no other criteria to crack down on it than by skin color. (30 words)

Example sentences (7)

Quantification of victim-proneness There have been some studies recently to quantify the real existence of victim-proneness.

This in turn skews the statistics of proneness to crime within their communities, thus leaving the police with no other criteria to crack down on it than by skin color.

The 19-year-old can play on either side of the defence which is also a plus for the North Londoners given their first-choice left-back Ben Davies' proneness to injury.

The choice to use victim facilitation as opposed to "victim proneness" or some other term is that victim facilitation is not blaming the victim, but rather the interactions of the victim that make him/her vulnerable to a crime.

This suggests that guilt-proneness may not always be beneficial at the level of the individual, or within-group competition, but highly beneficial in between-group competition.

Victim proneness Environmental theory The environmental theory posits that the location and context of the crime bring the victim of the crime and its perpetrator together.

Victim proneness or victim blaming can be a form of fundamental attribution error, and more specifically, the just-world phenomenon.

Common combinations with proneness

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "proneness" in a sentence?
An example: "Quantification of victim-proneness There have been some studies recently to quantify the real existence of victim-proneness." This page contains 7 example sentences with the word "proneness" from authentic English texts.
What does "proneness" mean?
Proneness means: The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward.
What are synonyms of "proneness"?
Common synonyms of "proneness" include: disposition.
How many example sentences with "proneness" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 7 example sentences with "proneness", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.