Tendency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TENDENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a trend or inclination, also TENDENCE, TENDENZ
• an inclination towards a particular characteristic or type of behaviour
• a group within a larger political party or movement.
• inclination to act in a certain way
• Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
• an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
• an inclination to do something
• a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect
• a general direction in which something tends to move
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an inclination to act or think in a particular way

Words related to TENDENCY

tendence11 tendencies13 tendenz17

Words that contain TENDENCY

countertendency23 superintendency23

How to use TENDENCY in a sentence

• They had little sympathy with the popular ambition for political independence, and probably regarded with alarm the tendency toward national expansion.
• Newman of such a display of the prevailing tendency of religious thought and devotion in his communion as Dr.
• I am glad to tell you that although he is delicate and excitable there seems to me no tendency to disease of any kind.
• Delightful might be the discovery, but awesome too, frightening her back by its very tendency to draw her forward.
• If you have a tendency toward mouth breathing, let a physician examine your nose and throat.
• What would be the tendency if three men together were to swear against me, now that everybody thought him wronged? I know very well what you will think of my cowardice.
• A cause of some importance at work amongst women of the middle and upper classes would seem to be the general tendency to revolt against sex restrictions and limitations.
• Much there must be that will be obscure, much that is vague, an exhausting variety in repetition, and a strong tendency to lose the idea in the symbol.
• The lives of his parents before his birth, and the story of his own boyhood, sufficiently account for the dominant tendency in Borrow.
• There is no necessity of picking and choosing too carefully, or of attempting to confine the exercise to a certain sort of fiction whose tendency is obviously moral.
• The tendency of an action is all its consequences near and remote, certain and probable, direct and collateral.
• Another case would be managed, perhaps, in a little different way, where the tendency to play was more decided.
• My eldest son now begins to display the family tendency to a most alarming extent.
• The hazard of now defeating her wishes may be of the most fatal tendency.
• The same spirit united with the tendency of his philosophy to place him among the very few men who have been great and genuine observers of human nature and human existence.
• His face was battered, an eye was blackened, and an ear showed a tendency to mushroom.
• The natural tendency might be to lay the chief stress on the fact that those people in the photoplay do not stand before us in flesh and blood.

Similar words containing TENDEN without suffix cy

tendenz17 tendence11 tendences12 tendenzen19 contendent13 pretendent13 tendencies13 tendential11 tendencial13 contendents14 pretendents14 tendencious14 tendentious12 tendencially18 tendentially16 tendenciously19 tendentiously17 superintendent17 countertendency23 superintendence20 superintendency23 superintendents18 tendenciousness18 tendentiousness16 countertendenci20 superintendenci20 superintendences21 countertendencies22 tendentiousnesses18 superintendencies22

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