proclivity
noun /prəˈklɪvəti/
/prəˈklɪvəti/
(formal) (plural proclivities)
- proclivity (for something/for doing something) a natural desire or need that makes you tend to do something, often something bad
（常指对坏事的）倾向，癖好 - his sexual/criminal proclivities
他的性倾向／犯罪倾向 - the government’s proclivity for spending money
政府花钱的倾向 - Most regimes have self-destructive proclivities.
大多数政权都有自我毁灭的倾向。
词源late 16th cent.: from Latin proclivitas, from proclivis ‘inclined’, from pro- ‘forward, down’ + clivus ‘slope’. - his sexual/criminal proclivities