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) (názaʿa) 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: נטייה (he) (n'tiyá) 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) (tɛndɛ́ncija) f
• Spanish: tendencia (es) f
• Swedish: tendens (sv), trend (sv), benägenhet (sv)

Synonyms

• inclination
• disposition
• propensity
• penchant
• trend