Meaning of tendency | Babel Free

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1. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
2. Trend, tendency.
3. An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
4. likelihood; inclination. He has a tendency to forget things. geneigdheid مَيْل склонност tendência sklon der Hang tendens; tilbøjelighed τάσηtendencia kalduvus گرایش taipumus tendanceנטייה प्रवृति sklonost, tendencija hajlam; tendencia kecenderungan tilhneiging tendenza 傾向 경향 polinkis, tendencija tendence; tieksme kecenderungan neigingtendens, tilbøyelighettendencjatendência tendinţă тенденция sklon nagnjenje tendencija tendens, benägenhet ความโน้มเอียง eğilim, meyil 趨向, 傾向 схильність, тенден...
5. tendencia.
6. A characteristic likelihood: fabric that has a tendency to wrinkle.
7. Movement or prevailing movement in a given direction: observed the tendency of the wind; the shoreward tendency of the current.
8. (often foll by to) an inclination, predisposition, propensity, or leaning: she has a tendency to be frivolous; a tendency to frivolity.
9. the general course, purport, or drift of something, esp a written work
10. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a faction, esp one within a political party: the militant tendency.
11. a natural or prevailing disposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point, end, or result.
12. an inclination, bent, or predisposition to something.
13. a special and definite purpose in a novel or other literary work.

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Examples

“Denim has a tendency to fade.”

“I have a tendency to get bored after the first half an hour of a movie.”

“There's a common tendency among first-game visitors to a casino to bet overcautiously.”

“In some details, Britannia shows the trend towards American practice that was already apparent in later L.M.S.R. designs—for example, in regard to the mounting of the cab—and this tendency has been further developed in the footwalk with deep sideplating, mounted on the boiler, in place of the framing and splashers usual in British practice in the past.”

“Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.”

“In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.”

“It reinforced the position of the conformist tendency within the party, since the majority of the candidates were old politicians, many of them members of Papandreou's centre-left CU faction back in the mid-1960s.”

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