tendency

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately from the Latin tendere / tendō.

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NounEdit

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.

TranslationsEdit

likelihood of behaving in a particular way

Arabic: ميل m (mayl), نزعة f (názaʿa)
Catalan: tendència f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 趨勢, 趋势 (zh) (qūshì)
Czech: sklon m, tendence f
Dutch: neiging (nl) f
Esperanto: emo, inklino, tendenco
Finnish: taipumus (fi)
French: tendance (fr) f
Georgian: ტენდენცია (tendenc’ia)
German: Tendenz (de) f (not often used in this sense, one would rather use a verb such as "zu (...) neigen" or tendieren)
Greek: τάση (el) f (tási), ροπή (el) f (ropí)
Haitian Creole: tandans

Hebrew: נטייה f (n'tiyá)
Hindi: प्रवृत्ति (pravr̥tti)
Hungarian: irány (hu)
Italian: tendenza (it) f
Japanese: 傾向 (ja) (けいこう, keikō)
Korean: 경향 (ko) (gyeonghyang)
Norwegian: tendens (no) m
Polish: tendencja (pl) f
Portuguese: tendência (pt) f
Romanian: tendință (ro) f, înclinație (ro) f
Russian: тенденция (ru) f (tɛndɛ́ncija)
Spanish: tendencia (es) f
Swedish: tendens (sv), trend (sv), benägenhet (sv)

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Last modified on 20 February 2014, at 11:11