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Words related to tendency

Related / Similar Words: inclination, disposition, leaning, propensity, trend

Definition:

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";

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";

an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity";

a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market";

Hyponyms: electronegativity, negativity, stainability, desire, direction, drift, trend, movement, Call, denominationalism, devices, sympathy, understanding, favoritism, favouritism, proclivity, propensity, leaning, bent, set, literalism, perseveration, predisposition, favor, favour, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disapproval, partiality, partisanship, impartiality, nonpartisanship

Derivational Morphology: tend, be given, lean, incline, run, dispose

Language Translations:
Chinese: 趨勢		Dutch: neiging
Finnish: taipumus		French: tendance
German: Tendenz		Hungarian: irány
Italian: tendenza		Japanese: 傾向
Korean: 경향		Portuguese: tendência
Russian: тенденция		Spanish: tendencia
Swedish: tendens

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