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tendency
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tendency
n.
inclination, leaning, partiality
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Tendency
Tendency or tendencies may refer to:
- Bleeding tendency, an unusual susceptibility to bleeding
- Central tendency, a central or typical value for a probability distribution
- Multi-tendency, a type of political organization structure
- Seasonal tendencies, a qualities of economic phenomena that appear to be related to the calendar
- Suicidal Tendencies, a thrash metal band
- Suicidal Tendencies (album), the band's eponymous debut album
- "Tendencies", a song by Hollywood Undead on the 2011 album American Tragedy
- Tendency film, a name given to socially conscious, left-leaning films produced in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s
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tendency
Noun
1. an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"
(synonym) inclination, disposition
(hypernym) attitude, mental attitude
(hyponym) direction
(derivation) tend, be given, lean, incline, run
2. an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
(synonym) leaning, propensity
(hypernym) inclination
(derivation) tend, be given, lean, incline, run
3. a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink"
(synonym) inclination
(hypernym) disposition
(hyponym) electronegativity, negativity
4. a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"
(synonym) trend
(hypernym) direction, way
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tendency
n.
sklon; tendence
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tendency
Rzecz.
skłonność; tendencja
