Synonym: aptitude, bent, disposition, inclination, leaning, proclivity. Similar words: independence, independent, presidency, tender, extended, dependent, agency, frequency. Meaning: ['tendənsɪ] n. 1. an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others 2. an inclination to do something 3. a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect 4. a general direction in which something tends to move.
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151 The singer evinced one bad habit in the Mahler group, a tendency to scoop into opening phrases.
152 Even my highly regrettable tendency to react positively whenever the fridge door is opened was proof against that.
153 But broadly speaking the tendency around the middle of the century was toward a more motet-like treatment of the parts.sentencedict.com/tendency.html
154 On the other hand the very same development increases their tendency to close their eyes to the future.
155 This tendency to associate - designed to warn us of impending danger-can in fact work against us.
156 Large dogs with fully developed human intelligences, although a tendency, when examining anything, to sniff it.
157 When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.
158 In the last years of his reign a tendency towards the creation of specialized departments within the ministry had become visible.
159 There was a tendency to acquiesce in low expectations of disadvantaged children and to define their needs in emotional rather than educational terms.
160 There is sometimes a tendency for a generalist service to expand into specialisms with which it is in daily contact.
161 There was considerable debate within this school about the overlapping concepts of motive, determining tendency and set.
162 This inherent tendency towards corporatism seems less inevitable in the late 1980s but we will return to it below.
163 They fretted at Reno's tendency to give negotiations one last chance when the going got rough.
164 No one responds to a prompt hint, or suggestion unless he already has some tendency to behave in a given way.
165 There was a tendency to radicalism in the labour movement.
166 And it is certainly true that these earnings differentials have had a tendency to diminish in the past.
167 A tendency to accumulate sticky mucus on the cornea removed by blinking.
168 Mitchell was by nature cautious with people although the island seemed to contradict this tendency in him.
169 There is a tendency for illnesses to become more prolonged, less intense and for the recovery to be slower.
170 With its warhead replaced by a Mercury capsule, the rocket had an alarming tendency to fail during flight.
171 Within the set of large companies there is a tendency towards dominance by the very largest.
172 The general tendency among long-time employees, said the study, is not to think of leaving.
173 This tendency remains for small integer values of k, reducing as k increases in size.
174 It is supposed to save money and impose some market discipline on bureaucracy's natural tendency to swell.
175 They were not entirely satisfactory and had a tendency to derail on the very sharp corner at Pitlake.
176 If not countermanded by personal courage or other organizational forces, this tendency becomes habitual and self-perpetuating.
177 The only problem is that some have a tendency to shake the bars if you hit a bump mid-corner.
178 There was no immutable tendency for it to settle at the particular level where all willing workers had a chance for employment.
179 Her speech is badly slurred, and the tendency is to dismiss her as a drunk or a druggie.
180 Our tendency to reward failure has literally crippled our efforts to help the poor.
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