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- Dictionaryproneness/ˈprəʊnnəs/
noun
- 1. liability to suffer from or experience something disagreeable; susceptibility: "his proneness to injury will seriously mar a promising career"
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PRONENESS definition: 1. the fact of being likely to suffer from an illness or have a particular negative characteristic…. Learn more.
: having the front or ventral surface of a body facing downward : lying with the chest and stomach positioned downward. a patient placed in a prone position. The victim was lying prone in the street.
PRONENESS meaning: 1. the fact of being likely to suffer from an illness or have a particular negative characteristic…. Learn more.
likely to show a particular characteristic, usually a negative one, or to be affected by something bad, such as damage or an illness : I've always been prone to headaches. See more. prone adjective (LYING DOWN) formal. lying face down: The photograph showed a man lying prone on the pavement, a puddle of blood around his head. Compare.
adj. 1. Lying with the front or face downward. 2. Having a tendency; inclined. Often used in combination: paper that is prone to yellowing; an accident-prone child. adv. In a prone manner: The patient was lying prone on the bed. [Middle English, inclined, disposed, from Latin prōnus, leaning forward; see per in Indo-European roots .] prone′ly adv.
Definition of proneness noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Man is innately more prone to good than to evil; and the path of his destiny is upward. Prone definition: having a natural inclination or tendency to something; disposed; liable. See examples of PRONE used in a sentence.
