Another word for tendency
tendency
n.
Direction
Inclination
leaning, tenor, bias, bent; see inclination 1.
tendency refers to an inclination or disposition to move in a particular direction or act in a certain way, esp. as a result of some inherent quality or habit he has a tendency toward exaggeration; trend suggests a general direction, with neither a definite course nor goal, subject to change or fluctuation by some external force a recent trend in literature; current differs from trend in connoting a clearly defined course, but one also subject to change the current of one's life; drift refers either to the course along which something is being carried or driven the drift toward absolute conformity or to a course taken by something that has unstated or unclear implications what is the drift of this argument?; tenor, equivalent in this connection to drift, connotes more strongly the clarity or purport of the unstated purpose or objective the general tenor of the Bill of Rights
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Another word for tendency
An inclination to something:
bent, bias, cast, disposition, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, squint, trend, turn. See approach, likeThe thread or current of thought uniting or occurring in all the elements of a text or discourse:
aim, burden2, drift, intent, meaning, purport, substance, tenor, thrust. See meaning
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