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tendency

noun
/ˈtɛn.dən.si/CA/ˈten.dən.si/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tendentia, from tendens, present participle of tendō.

  1. borrowed from tendentia

Definitions

  1. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction

    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.

  2. An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

    • Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.
    • In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.
    • 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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Derived

book bowel tendency, central tendency, measure of central tendency, multitendency, Serota tendency, tendency tone, tendency writing

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at tendency. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at tendency. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at tendency

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA