predisposing
Creating inherent tendency
Predisposing means making someone or something more likely to develop a condition, hold an attitude, or experience an outcome.
The term appears most often in medical contexts: predisposing factors for heart disease, a genetic mutation predisposing carriers to certain cancers.
More broadly, anything that creates susceptibility predisposes: His upbringing predisposed him to distrust authority.
Disposition toward something
- proclivityInherent tendency toward something
- propensityInnate behavioral inclination
- predilectionPreexisting preference or bias
- susceptibilityLiability to influence
vulnerability · proneness · leaning · bent · bias · penchant · partiality · affinity
Learned behavioral adaptation
- primingMaking ready beforehand
- sensitizingMaking more responsive
- preparingMaking ready beforehand
- readyingMaking prepared beforehand
setting up · orienting · shaping · influencing · inclining · swaying · biasing · directing
Condition increasing harm probability
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
- family historyRecord of ancestors
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- susceptibilityLiability to influence
vulnerability · immunocompromised · comorbidity · biomarker · carrier · mutation · syndrome · condition
Contributor to result
- determinantMatrix-derived scalar quantity
- catalystAgent enabling change
- triggerWhat initiates action
- antecedentSomething that precedes
precursor · cause · contributor · influence · agent · stimulus · element · condition
inclination
Disposition toward something
- proclivityInherent tendency toward something
- propensityInnate behavioral inclination
- predilectionPreexisting preference or bias
susceptibility · vulnerability · proneness · leaning · bent · bias · penchant · partiality · affinity · temperament
conditioning
Learned behavioral adaptation
- primingMaking ready beforehand
- sensitizingMaking more responsive
- preparingMaking ready beforehand
readying · setting up · orienting · shaping · influencing · inclining · swaying · biasing · directing · steering
risk factor
Condition increasing harm probability
- geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
- family historyRecord of ancestors
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
susceptibility · vulnerability · immunocompromised · comorbidity · biomarker · carrier · mutation · syndrome · condition · exposure
factor
Contributor to result
- determinantMatrix-derived scalar quantity
- catalystAgent enabling change
- triggerWhat initiates action
antecedent · precursor · cause · contributor · influence · agent · stimulus · element · condition · circumstance
predisposingprotecting
Keeping from harm
preventive · inhibiting · preventing · prophylactic · immunizing
predisposingcausing
Making occur
triggering · precipitating · inducing · effecting · producing
- genetic predispositionInherited increased likelihood