tendency
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Ultimately from 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.
- 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.
- (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
- 1974, James Boggs; Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 134:
- Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.
- 1997, S. Onslow, Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948-57, Springer, →ISBN, page 234:
- In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.
- 2013, Richard Gillespie; Lourdes Lopez Nieto; Michael Waller, Factional Politics and Democratization, Routledge, →ISBN, page 83:
- 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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likelihood of behaving in a particular way
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