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tendence

tendence is the obsolete form of tendency.

Meaning of tendency

Noun

tendency (plural tendencies)

  1. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
    • Denim has a tendency to fade.
  2. An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
    • Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.1974, James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 134

Forms of tendence

pluraltendences

Questions about tendence

What is tendence the obsolete form of?
Tendence is the obsolete form of tendency.

Words near tendence in the dictionary

  1. tendays
  2. tende
  3. tended
  4. tended bar
  5. tended to one's knitting
  6. tendence
  7. tendences
  8. tendencial
  9. tendencially
  10. tendencies
  11. tendencious

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