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craving

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?e?.v??/
  • Rhymes: -e?v??

Etymology 1

From Middle English cravinge, from Old English crafing (“claim, demand”); equivalent to crave +? -ing.

Noun

craving (plural cravings)

  1. A strong desire; yearning.

Descendants

  • Jamaican Creole: craven
Translations

Etymology 2

From crave.

Verb

craving

  1. present participle of crave

Further reading

  • craving in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • craving in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • carving

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proclivity

English

Etymology

From Latin pr?cl?vit?s, from pro (“toward”) + cl?vus (“a slope, hill”).

Pronunciation

  • (weak vowel distinction) IPA(key): /p?o??kl?v?ti/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /p?o??kl?v?ti/
  • Rhymes: -?v?ti

Noun

proclivity (plural proclivities)

  1. A predisposition or natural inclination, propensity, or a predilection; especially, a strong disposition or bent.
    • , Episode 16
      This therefore was the reason why the still comparatively young though dissolute man who now addressed Stephen was spoken of by some with facetious proclivities as Lord John Corley.

Synonyms

  • penchant, propensity, see also Thesaurus:predilection

Translations

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