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say it: in-kluh-NAY-shuhn
inclination is a noun meaning "an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others". It carries 8 recorded senses.
an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
“he had an inclination to give up too easily”
“a tendency to be too strict”
(astronomy) the angle between the plane of the orbit and the plane of the ecliptic stated in degrees
astronomy
(geometry) the angle formed by the x-axis and a given line (measured counterclockwise from the positive half of the x-axis)
geometry
that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
“her inclination is for classical music”
a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
“the alkaline inclination of the local waters”
“fabric with a tendency to shrink”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inclination come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.