Tendenz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Tendenz.

Noun

Tendenz

1. The drift or bias of a literary work.

German

Etymology

Relatinized from French tendance under the influence of Medieval Latin tendentia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛnˈdɛns/, [tʰɛnˈdɛns]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Tendenz f (genitive Tendenz, plural Tendenzen)

1. tendency

Declension

Declension of Tendenz [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Tendenz	die	Tendenzen
genitive	einer	der	Tendenz	der	Tendenzen
dative	einer	der	Tendenz	den	Tendenzen
accusative	eine	die	Tendenz	die	Tendenzen

Synonyms

• tendenziös
• tendieren

Derived terms

• Tendenzdrama
• Tendenzmeinung
• Tendenzroman
• Tendenzschrift

Further reading

• “Tendenz”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Tendenz” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Tendenz” in Duden online
• Tendenz on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de