"propensity" meaning in English

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  "hyphenation": "pro‧pen‧sity",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He had the propensity for long conversations."
        }
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        "A propensity is a tendency or preference to do something, for something, or to behave in a certain way."
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          "word": "tendency"
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