inclination
Noun
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is a type of: attitude, mental attitude - a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain wayssubtypes:
- direction - a general course along which something has a tendency to develop
- drift, movement, trend - a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- call - a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
- denominationalism - the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations
- devices - an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'
- sympathy, understanding - an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
- favoritism, favouritism - an inclination to favor some person or group
- leaning, proclivity, propensity - a natural inclination
- bent, set - a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- literalism - a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense
- perseveration - the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it
- predisposition - an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way
- favor, favour - an inclination to approve
- disapproval, disfavor, disfavour, dislike - an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
- partiality, partisanship - an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
- impartiality, nonpartisanship - an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally
same as: disposition, tendency -
referred to in: astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a wholeis a type of: angle - the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radianssame as: inclination of an orbit
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referred to in: geometry - the pure mathematics of points and lines and curves and surfacesis a type of: angle - the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radianssame as: angle of inclination
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referred to in: natural philosophy, physics - the science of matter and energy and their interactionsis a type of: angle - the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
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is a type of: liking - a feeling of pleasure and enjoymentsubtypes:
- leaning, propensity, tendency - an inclination to do something
- stomach - an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness
- undertow - an inclination contrary to the strongest or prevailing feeling
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is a type of: position, spatial relation - the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
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is a type of: disposition - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thingsubtypes:
- heterosis, hybrid vigor - (genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent
- buoyancy - the tendency to float in water or other liquid
- electronegativity, negativity - (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond
- stainability - (cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes
- desire - an inclination to want things
same as: tendency -
is a type of: motility, motion, move, movement - a change of position that does not entail a change of locationsubtypes:same as: inclining
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