tendency

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately from the Latin tendere / tendō.

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

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. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

   a militant tendency

Derived termsEdit

• multitendency

TranslationsEdit

likelihood of behaving in a particular way

• Arabic: مَيْل m ‎(mayl), نَزَعَة f ‎(nazaʿa)
• Catalan: tendència f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 趨勢 (zh), 趋势 (zh) ‎(qūshì)

• Czech: sklon (cs) m, tendence f
• Dutch: neiging (nl) f
• Esperanto: emo, inklino, tendenco
• Finnish: taipumus (fi)
• French: tendance (fr) f
• Georgian: ტენდენცია ‎(ṭendencia)
• 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 (hi) ‎(pravr̥tti)
• Hungarian: irány (hu)
• Indonesian: kecenderungan (id)
• Italian: tendenza (it) f
• Japanese: 傾向 (ja) ‎(けいこう, keikō)
• Korean: 경향 (ko) ‎(gyeonghyang)
• Malay: kecenderungan
• Norwegian: tendens (no) m
• Polish: tendencja (pl) f
• Portuguese: tendência (pt) f
• Romanian: tendință (ro) f, înclinație (ro) f
• Russian: тенде́нция (ru) f ‎(tɛndɛ́ncija)
• Spanish: tendencia (es) f
• Swedish: tendens (sv), trend (sv), benägenhet (sv)
• Turkish: eğilim (tr), tandans (tr)

SynonymsEdit

• inclination
• disposition
• propensity
• penchant
• trend