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Definition of Tendency
Tendency

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

Related Definitions:
About, An, Any, Bring, Causal, Course, Direction, Drift, Effect, Efficient, Influence, Object, Or, Place, Result, To, Toward


Tendency Quotations

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.
Maurice Strong

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

Duruing all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
John James Audubon

Tendency Translations

tendency in Afrikaans is lus
tendency in Danish is tendens
tendency in Dutch is wilsbeschikking, gesteldheid, aanleg
tendency in Finnish is taipumus
tendency in French is tendance, aptitude, inclinaison
tendency in German is Tendenz {f}, Tendenz, Neigung {f}, Absicht {f}
tendency in Italian is declinazione


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