What the word for this called? When something is likely to give rise to something.

Probability? Potential?

Latency? Smouldering?

In what context?

How about...

"...his soul seething within him like a Welsh rabbit at the height of its fever..."

Wodehouse

"Conducive" fits the bill...

There are also 'momentous' and 'consequential'. "Consequential" can mean having consequences, too.

Yeasty? Pregnant? Imminent?

Come on, Juice, give us a context clue!

Predisposed.

Conducive and predisposed! Yes! Thanks a bunch, Colin and Juan, and everybody else. Great quick and ready responses.

Sorry about the lack and context. I wasn't sure how else to put it, but I guess I could've given a sentence of the idea.

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Originally posted by newnickname:
How about...

"...his soul seething within him like a Welsh rabbit at the height of its fever..."

Wodehouse

There must be a joke in there somewhere. "Welsh rabbit" is the English for melted cheese on toast, sometimes erroneously, but more diplomatically, called "Welsh rarebit". Perhaps the character is something of a milksop and not roused to anything near a fevered state, so Wodehouse is making mock.( The melting cheese of the Welsh rabbit seethes and bubbles under the grill : 'at the height of its fever' ).

Exactly so, Fred. But I think it gave rise to a proposal, in this case.