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tendency writing

tendency writing noun: literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral.

Noun

tendency writing (countable and uncountable, plural tendency writings)

  1. Literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral.

Forms of tendency writing

pluraltendency writings

Origin of tendency writing

The name is borrowed from German forms such as Tendenzschrift, Tendenzroman ("tendency novel"), and Tendenzdrama.

Questions about tendency writing

What does tendency writing mean?
Tendency writing means literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral.
What part of speech is tendency writing?
Tendency writing is a noun.
What is the plural of tendency writing?
The plural of tendency writing is tendency writings.

Words near tendency writing in the dictionary

  1. tendencious
  2. tendenciously
  3. tendency
  4. tendency tone
  5. tendency tones
  6. tendency writing
  7. tendency writings
  8. tendential
  9. tendentially
  10. tendentious
  11. tendentiously

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tendency writing (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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