Home › Words › P › propensionpropension/pɹəˈpɛnʃ(ə)n/propension means propensity.propension is pronounced /pɹəˈpɛnʃ(ə)n/.EtymologyFrom French propension, and its source, Latin prōpēnsiō, from the participle stem of prōpendeō.nounPropensity.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).