Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A state of being predisposed; a tendency, inclination, or susceptibility.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being previously disposed in a particular direction; previous tendency or inclination; mental or physical liability or susceptibility, as to a particular mode of thought or action.
- noun Specifically, in medicine, a condition of body in which a slight exciting cause may produce disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind.
- noun Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
predisposed orsusceptible to something, especially to adisease or otherhealth problem
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way
- noun susceptibility to a pathogen
- noun a disposition in advance to react in a particular way
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Examples
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
The Selfless Gene 2007
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
Transcending God 2007
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
Transcending God 2007
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
Transcending God 2007
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
The Selfless Gene 2007
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Human beings come into the world with a predisposition to believe in supernatural phenomena — and this predisposition is a by-product of cognitive functioning gone awry
Transcending God 2007
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