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tendency

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of tendency

1 an established pattern of behavior

a tendency to drop things

a tendency to make snap judgments

Synonyms of tendency

aptness, proneness, propensity, way

Words Related to tendency

affinity, aptitude, bent, disposition, inclination, leaning, mind-set, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, turn

custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), routine, wont

eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, trick

Near Antonyms of tendency

averseness, disinclination, dislike, indisposition

2 a prevailing or general movement or inclination

we'll be seeing a tendency for skirt lengths to get shorter this coming season

Synonyms of tendency

current, direction, drift, leaning, run, tide, trend, wind

Words Related to tendency

curve, downside, shift, swing, turn, turnabout, upside

custom, habit, propensity, tenor, way

countercurrent, countertrend

undercurrent, undertow

3 a habitual attraction to some activity or thing

a youth with a natural tendency toward arts and crafts instead of sports

Synonyms of tendency

affection, affinity, aptitude, bent, bias, bone, devices, disposition, genius, habitude, impulse, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, turn

Words Related to tendency

favor, one-sidedness, partisanship, prejudice

endowment, faculty, flair, genius, gift, knack, talent

addiction, appetite, fancy, fondness, like, liking, preference, taste

forte, speciality, specialty

convention, custom, habit, pattern, practice (also practise), routine, trick, way, wont

eccentricity, idiosyncrasy, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity

Near Antonyms of tendency

allergy, averseness, aversion, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, disrelish, distaste

detachment, impartiality, neutrality, objectivity

apathy, disinterestedness, indifference, insouciance, nonchalance, unconcern

Synonym Discussion of tendency

tendency, trend, drift, tenor, current mean movement in a particular direction. tendency implies an inclination sometimes amounting to an impelling force.

- a general tendency toward inflation

trend applies to the general direction maintained by a winding or irregular course.

- the long-term trend of the stock market is upward

drift may apply to a tendency determined by external forces

- the drift of the population away from large cities

or it may apply to an underlying or obscure trend of meaning or discourse.

- got the drift of her argument

tenor stresses a clearly perceptible direction and a continuous, undeviating course.

- the tenor of the times

current implies a clearly defined but not necessarily unalterable course.

- an encounter that changed the current of my life

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