Predisposition vs. Disposition: What's the Difference?
Predisposition and Disposition Definitions
Predisposition
A state of being predisposed; a tendency, inclination, or susceptibility.
Disposition
One's usual mood; temperament
A sweet disposition.
Predisposition
The state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a behavior or a health condition.
Disposition
A habitual inclination; a tendency
A disposition to disagree.
Predisposition
The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; - applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.
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Disposition
A physical property or tendency
A swelling with a disposition to rupture.
Predisposition
Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; - applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease.
Disposition
Arrangement, positioning, or distribution
A cheerful disposition of colors and textures.
A convoy oriented into a north-south disposition.
Predisposition
Susceptibility to a pathogen
Disposition
An act of disposing; a bestowal or transfer to another.
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Predisposition
An inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way
Disposition
The power or liberty to control, direct, or dispose
The funds that were put at her disposition.
Predisposition
A disposition in advance to react in a particular way
Disposition
The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:
Disposition
Control over something, or the results produced by the exercise of such control; thus:
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Disposition
Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
I have little disposition now to do as you say.
Salt has a disposition to dissolve in water.
Disposition
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
She has a sunny disposition.
He has such a foul disposition.
Disposition
To remove or place in a different position.
Disposition
The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels.
The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece.
Disposition
The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
Disposition
Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
Disposition
Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
How stands your disposition to be married?
Disposition
Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.
Disposition
Mood; humor.
As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on.
Disposition
Your usual mood;
He has a happy disposition
Disposition
The act or means of getting rid of something
Disposition
An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;
He had an inclination to give up too easily
A tendency to be too strict
Disposition
A natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing;
A swelling with a disposition to rupture
