Propensity vs Tantamount - What's the difference?
propensity | tantamount |
A tendency, preference, or attraction.
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Equivalent in meaning or effect.
* De Quincey
* 1981 , Del Martin, Battered Wives (page 90)
As nouns the difference between propensity and tantamount
is that propensity is a tendency, preference, or attraction while tantamount is (obsolete) something which has the same value or amount (as something else).As a verb tantamount is
(obsolete) to amount to as much; to be equivalent.As an adjective tantamount is
equivalent in meaning or effect.propensity
English
Noun
(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.}}
Synonyms
* proclivity * propensiontantamount
English
Noun
(en noun)- For end thereof, not despondency but madness : for when Cossey understood that Hobday had called his wife a tantamount , he waited for him outside, and gave him what he called a pair of clippers over the ear.
Adjective
(en adjective)- It's tantamount to fraud.
- In this view, disagreement and treason are tantamount .
- the certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin
- expecting the woman to take her attacker into physical custody is tantamount to preventing the arrest. If she could handle him, she probably would not need to call the police in the first place.