tendency

English

Etymology

Ultimately from the Latin tendere / tendō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tendency (plural tendencies)

1. a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.

   Denim has a tendency to fade.

Translations

likelihood of behaving in a particular way

Arabic: ميل (ar) (mayl) m., نزعة (ar) (náza3a) f. Catalan: tendència (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 趨勢 (cmn), 趋势 (cmn) (qūshì) Czech: sklon (cs) m., tendence (cs) f. Dutch: neiging (nl) f. Esperanto: emo (eo), inklino (eo), tendenco (eo) Finnish: taipumus (fi), suunta (fi) French: tendance (fr) f. German: Tendenz (de) f. (not often used in this sense, one would rather use a verb such as "zu (...) neigen" or tendieren) Haitian Creole: tandans Hebrew: נטיה (he) (netiya) f.

Hindi: प्रवृत्ति (hi) (pravr̥tti) Hungarian: irány (hu) Italian: tendenza (it) f. Japanese: 傾向 (ja) (けいこう, keikō) Korean: 경향 (ko) (gyeonghyang) Norwegian: tendens (no) m. Polish: tendencja (pl) f. Portuguese: tendência (pt) f. Romanian: tendință (ro) f., înclinație (ro) f. Russian: тенденция (ru) (tendéncija) f. Spanish: tendencia (es) f. Swedish: tendens (sv), trend (sv), benägenhet (sv)

Synonyms

• inclination
• disposition
• propensity
• penchant
• trend