predispositions in English
noun
1
a liability or tendency to suffer from a particular condition, hold a particular attitude, or act in a particular way.
a child may inherit a predisposition to schizophrenia
noun
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1. Steinthal summed up these predispositions as "Semitism", and so Steinschneider characterised Renan's ideas as "anti-Semitic prejudice".
2. Attitudes are predispositions: An attitude is a predisposition – a prior determined or learnt view of a thing or tendency to act in a specific way towards a thing