tendency

EnglishEdit

Ultimately from the Latin tendere / tendō.

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.
(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.

likelihood of behaving in a particular way

Arabic: مَيْل‎ m (mayl), نَزَعَة‎ f (nazaʿa)
Armenian: միտում (hy) (mitum)
Catalan: tendència f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 趨勢 (zh), 趋势 (zh) (qūshì)
Czech: sklon (cs) m, tendence (cs) f
Dutch: neiging (nl) f
Esperanto: emo, inklino, tendenco
Finnish: taipumus (fi)
French: tendance (fr) f
Georgian: ტენდენცია (ṭendencia), მიდრეკილება (midreḳileba)
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 (he) f (n'tiyá)