tendency
Syllables: ten·den·cyUK/ˈtɛn.dən.si/
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Australia/ˈten.dən.si/
tendency noun: a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
Noun
tendency (plural tendencies)
- A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
- Denim has a tendency to fade.
- I have a tendency to get bored after the first half an hour of a movie.
- 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
- In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.1997, S. Onslow, Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948-57, Springer, →ISBN, page 234
tendency meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
tendency in Hindi
- likelihood of behaving in a particular way
- प्रवृत्ति pravŕtti
tendency in Tamil
- போக்கு
tendency in Marathi
- प्रवृत्ती
tendency in Urdu
- tendency, kindness
- توجہ tavajju
More languagesFewer languages
- tendency in Bengali
- প্রবণতা, ঝোঁক
- tendency in Malayalam
- പ്രവണത pravaṇata
- tendency in Kannada
- ಒಲವು
- tendency in Arabic
- مَيْل mayl, نَزَعَة nazaʕa
- tendency in Malay
- kecenderungan
- tendency in Indonesian
- kecenderungan
- tendency in Persian
- گرایش gerâyeš
- tendency in Thai
- แนวโน้ม nɛɛo-nóom
- tendency in Vietnamese
- khuynh hướng, xu thế
Examples of tendency in a sentence
- There's a common tendency among first-game visitors to a casino to bet overcautiously.
- It seems that people with an ancestral history of enduring famines develop a tendency to store more body fat, becoming overfat even when they aren’t overweight.2025 June 17, Shane Duquette, Marco Walker-Ng, “What is Skinny Fat? And How to Know If You Are”, in Bony to Beastly, archived from the...
Synonyms of tendency
Forms of tendency
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Origin of tendency
From Medieval Latin tendentia, from tendens, present participle of tendō.
Words formed from tendency
Phrases with tendency
Questions about tendency
- What does tendency mean?
- Tendency means a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
- What is tendency in Hindi?
- Tendency in Hindi is प्रवृत्ति (pravŕtti). See Tendency meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use tendency in a sentence?
- There's a common tendency among first-game visitors to a casino to bet overcautiously.
- What part of speech is tendency?
- Tendency is a noun.
- How do you pronounce tendency?
- Tendency is pronounced /ˈtɛn.dən.si/ (UK).
- What is the plural of tendency?
- The plural of tendency is tendencies.
Words near tendency in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tendency (page history and authors); tendency (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tendency (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); توجہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); Tendency (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tendency (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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