Adaptation vs Propensity - What's the difference?
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(label) The quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment.
(label) Adjustment to extant conditions: as, adjustment of a sense organ to the intensity or quality of stimulation; modification of some thing or its parts that makes it more fit for existence under the conditions of its current environment.
* {{quote-book, title=, year=1911
, passage=ACCLIMATIZATION, the process of adaptation by which animals and plants are gradually rendered capable of surviving and flourishing in countries remote from their original habitats, or under meteorological conditions different from those which they have usually to endure, and at first injurious to them.}}
(label) Something which has been adapted; variation.
* {{quote-book, author=Frederick Lawton, title=, year=1910
, passage=Having partly a bibliographic value, and partly confirming the statements above as to Balzac's influence, the following details concerning theatrical adaptations of some of his novels may serve as a supplement to this chapter.}}
A tendency, preference, or attraction.
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Adaptation is a related term of propensity.
As nouns the difference between adaptation and propensity
is that adaptation is (label) the quality of being adapted; adaption; adjustment while propensity is a tendency, preference, or attraction.adaptation
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(wikipedia adaptation)Noun
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{{der3, adaptational , adaptationism , adaptationist}}propensity
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(propensities)Katie L. Burke
In the News, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.}}