different between endowment vs inclination

English

Etymology

From Middle English endowement; equivalent to endow +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ?n-dou?m?nt, ?n-, IPA^(key): /?n?da?m?nt/, /?n?da?m?nt/
• (US) enPR: ?n-dou?m?nt, ?n-, IPA^(key): /?n?da?m?nt/, /?n?da?m?nt/

Noun

endowment (plural endowments)

1. Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
   • 1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):

     I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments.

   • 1958, Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the United Parents Association:

     We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

   • 1985, Jonas Salk, Interview on The Open Mind (11 May 1985):

     What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment.
2. Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
   • 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland:

     Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.

   • 1932, Robert Clarkson Clothier, after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

     I seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.
3. (insurance) Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
4. (Mormonism) A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.

Synonyms

• (something with which a person or thing is endowed): gift

Derived terms

• endowment mortgage

Related terms

• endow

Translations

Middle English

Noun

endowment

1. Alternative form of endowement

English

Etymology

From Middle English inclinacioun, inclinacyon, from Old French inclination and Latin incl?n?ti?.Morphologically incline +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.kl??ne?.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

inclination (countable and uncountable, plural inclinations)

1. A physical tilt or bend.

2. A slant or slope.

4. A mental tendency.

5. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane

6. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.
   • c. 1672-1679, William Temple, Memoirs

     you make will be a Discovery of your Inclinations

   • c. 1771, John Adams, speaking in a trial

     Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Synonyms

• (slant or slope): incline, inclining, steepness
• (tendency): leaning, proclivity, propensity

Derived terms

• inclinational

Related terms

• inclinable
• incline
• inclined plane
• inclinometer

Translations

Anagrams

• anilinction

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin incl?n?ti?, incl?n?ti?nem. See also inclinaison.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.kli.na.sj??/

Noun

inclination f (plural inclinations)

1. inclination (all senses)

Related terms

• incliner

Further reading

• “inclination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).