Other forms: inclinations
An inclination is a leaning towards something, or a slope. A natural inclination, no inclination to argue, the inclination of the axis.
The human sense is a mild preference rather than a strong desire, and no inclination to do something is a polite refusal. The physical sense is technical: the inclination of the Earth's axis is what gives us seasons at all.
1nouninclinationA leaning towards something, or a slope.
“My natural inclination is to trust people until they give me a reason not to.”
inclination is a leaning.
Latin inclinatio comes from inclinare, to lean — in plus clinare, to bend. Lean and climate are relatives.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱley-
Latin
inclīnātiō
Old French
inclination
Middle English
inclinacioun
English, today
inclination
From Middle English inclinacioun, inclinacyon, from Old French inclination and Latin inclīnātiō. Morphologically incline + ation.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA