Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PREDISPOSITION

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Definitions of PREDISPOSITION

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

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Examples of Using PREDISPOSITION in a Sentence

• Risk factors for mental illness include psychological trauma, adverse childhood experiences, genetic predisposition, and personality traits.
• The exact cause of substance abuse is not clear, but there are two predominant theories: either a genetic predisposition or a habit learned from others, which, if addiction develops, manifests itself as a chronic debilitating disease.
• There is a predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, for people to view the past more positively and future more negatively.
• Genetic predisposition, a proportion of which may be mediated through other heritable lifestyle factors such as body mass index, smoking and alcohol consumption.
• Lorne formed close friendships with men, including Lord Ronald Gower, Morton Fullerton and the Count de Mauny, who were known to be homosexual or bisexual, which fuelled rumours in London society that he shared their predisposition.
• The onset of claustrophobia has been attributed to many factors, including a reduction in the size of the amygdala, classical conditioning, or a genetic predisposition to fear small spaces.
• Miniature Schnauzers may have been developed from the smallest specimens of the Standard Schnauzer, but aloof dogs, with good guarding tendencies without some guard dogs' predisposition to bite.
• In evolutionary genetics, mutational meltdown is a sub class of extinction vortex in which the environment and genetic predisposition mutually reinforce each other.
• Why, he asked, "do we 'normalize' one sinful habit and predisposition but yet still condemn another?".
• Sam hypothesizes that some of those injected with C24 will develop superhuman abilities but retain their humanity, while others with a predisposition for violent or psychotic behavior will become creatures, a pattern she believes also happened with the Martians, who built the Ark to escape.
• There are many risk factors for heart diseases: age, sex, tobacco use, physical inactivity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, excessive alcohol consumption, unhealthy diet, obesity, genetic predisposition and family history of cardiovascular disease, raised blood pressure (hypertension), raised blood sugar (diabetes mellitus), raised blood cholesterol (hyperlipidemia), undiagnosed celiac disease, psychosocial factors, poverty and low educational status, air pollution, and poor sleep.
• The breed has some genetic predisposition to neurological diseases including coccygeal muscle injury, GM2 gangliosidosis, hemivertebrae, pyogranulomatous meningoencephalomyelitis and sensory neuropathy.
• In the case of non-small-cell lung cancer, myelosuppression predisposition was shown to be modulated by enhancer mutations.
• Spondyloarthritis (SpA), also known as spondyloarthropathy, is a collection of clinical syndromes that are connected by genetic predisposition and clinical manifestations.
• Some studies have suggested a genetic predisposition to primary lens luxation which results in secondary glaucoma.
• The group is characterized by a long list of in-crowd jokes like the fictitious University of Ediacara, the equally fictitious Evil Atheist Conspiracy which allegedly hides all the evidence supporting Creationism, a monthly election of the Chez Watt-award for "statements that make you go 'say what', or some such", pun cascades, a strong predisposition to quoting Monty Python, and a habit of calling penguins "the best birds".
• However, there is good reason to suppose that the likelihood of a death from SIDS in a family is significantly greater if a previous child has already died in these circumstances, (a genetic predisposition to SIDS is likely to invalidate that assumed statistical independence) making some families more susceptible to SIDS and the error an outcome of the ecological fallacy.
• Declinism, the predisposition to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively, may be related to cognitive biases like rosy retrospection.
• Fitzhugh is best known for her 1964 novel Harriet the Spy, a fiction work about an adolescent girl's predisposition with a journal covering the foibles of her friends, her classmates, and the strangers she is captivated by.
• This idea was applied to perceiving someone's psyche and deducing if they are biologically inclined to criminal behavior, as higher pain tolerance, primal nature, and shameless attitudes were associated with a predisposition towards criminal behavior.
• Bias is an inclination toward something, or a predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, or predilection.
• The same survey identified a predisposition to gastric dilatation volvulus with 9% of Otterhounds having the condition and 7.
• "Liberian religious culture is characterised by a predisposition towards secrecy (encapsulated in the concept of ifa mo - "do not speak it") and an ingrained belief in the intervention of mysterious forces in human affairs".
• This great predisposition of youth led Hecker to the name hebephrenia, "insanity of youth," for the group delimited by him; Clouston also, who spoke of an " adolescent insanity," had evidently before everything dementia praecox in view.
• Similar terms include adultism, which is a predisposition towards adults that is biased against children and youth, and ageism, which describes discrimination against any person because of their age.

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