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.
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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181 A comparable tendency is to be found in the theatre.
182 The neo-populist view points to a variety of factors which counteracted the tendency of commercialization to foster differentiation.
183 From this theoretical perspective there is no underlying tendency towards equality.
184 There will, therefore,(Sentencedict.com ) be a built-in tendency for inflated numbers of women to receive this diagnosis.
185 Top company executives say they are well aware of the tendency of big companies to become more bureaucratic.
186 Sodium has a strong tendency to lose an electron and become the positively charged ion Na.
187 Its contribution was to concentrate on factors of the criminal justice system that control the natural human tendency towards deviance.
188 George had a tendency to be detained or shot at for sketching coastal installations in strategic areas.
189 The tendency of great things to be accomplished in dreadful spaces should give architects and decorators pause.
190 The tendency for earlier generations to lean so heavily on providence had been connected with the brevity and insecurity of life.
191 As a result, the tendency for waste - especially hazardous waste - to cross borders is especially marked.
192 At best, he is summarising our human tendency to dualism.
193 Monkeys have a minor version of our tendency to use the left brain for listening carefully to rapid sound sequences.
194 These counteract the tendency for the body to contract under its own gravitational pull.
195 This biological tendency is so strong that children can even invent a new language.
196 Normally, some records are accessed more frequently than others, and this tendency can be used to decrease average access time.
197 A general tendency towards making artillery lighter and more mobile can also be seen in the later decades of the century.
198 There is a tendency to look back at a time when people were more peaceful and law-abiding.
199 He had always fought against a tendency to put on weight.
200 That tendency was an asset for them as producers, but as managers was a liability.
201 Transcription has the unfortunate tendency to make things seem simpler and more clear-cut than they really are.
202 Allied to this is the tendency to work closely with those schools which share this unstructured and flexible approach to referrals.
203 I was also concerned at the tendency of some to downplay the effects of excess weight on health.
204 But the social forms that the manifestations of the tendency take are very various and both historically conditioned and culturally determined.
205 Besides, his own party's do-or-die tendency will now be vigilant against any hint of gradualism.
206 With its tendency to glorify brute force it outrages moral standards and inflames the passions.
207 This tendency has to be limited by a number of mechanisms which the course has evolved.
208 Controlling for the other variables, Thaler and Rosen found a clear systematic tendency for wage rates to rise with increasing risk.
209 The tendency of bureaucrats to take a dim view of whistle-blowers is particularly marked in the military.
210 He was brilliant, with a tendency to arrogance; perhaps that explained why he got along so well with Lleland.
More similar words: independence, independent, presidency, tender, extended, dependent, agency, frequency, currency, emergency, efficiency, evidence, render, gender, sentence, residence, extend, attend, intend, offender, respondent, contend, defender, vendetta, attend to, rendezvous, correspondent, attendance, pregnancy, deny.