North American Edition The dollar took a spill during the Asia session after the WSJ published an interview with Trump, who said that the dollar is getting too strong.. The narrow USD index tipped to a two-week low near 100.00 as a consequence. USD-JPY hit a four-month ... Read More â¶. 2017-04-13 11:02 UTC.
They're essentially synonymous: Proclivity is 'leaning to', propensity is 'nearness to' and predilection is 'preference for'. Worry about something more significant like the misuse of the words irony and disinterest or the mispronunciation of the the words route and forte.
Propensity and proclivity both just mean tendency: Propensity: a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much. Proclivity: natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition: a proclivity to meticulousness. So while propensity and proclivity are close synonyms, and interchangeable, predilection means something different, and should not be used as a synonym. There is one major difference between propensity and proclivity, and that is popularity: Proclivity to me sounds more scholarly than propensity, maybe just because not many people use it.