Definition: 1. An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others. 2. An inclination to do something. 3. A characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect. 4. A general direction in which something tends to move.
Use 'tendency' in a sentence:
1. They should also be sceptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.
2. He has a tendency to oversell himself.
3. American abdication would tempt Soviet tendencies toward filling every vacuum.
4. The tendency is for all three to vote together.
5. The tendency toward masochism is however always linked with elements of sadism.
6. This course is actually going to run counter to that historical tendency.
7. Parks has a tendency to become personally involved with his photographic subjects.
8. They have a tendency to try to sidetrack you from your task.
9. The tendency of events is towards peace.
10. They have a tendency to show off, to dramatize almost every situation.
11. A 16-year-old boy's tendency to skateboard without a helmet is very normal.
12. They should also be skeptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.
13. Such a tendency is not to be encouraged.
14. As the archaeologist Roger Cribb puts it, "The greater the degree of pastoralism, the stronger the tendency toward nomadism."
15. One must be alive to the possibility that one tendency may conceal another.
16. They did show decidedly corporatist tendencies.
17. Steinberg suspected this tendency could also have its advantages.
18. The tendency towards masochism is however always linked with elements of sadism.
19. There is a tendency to shut museums or shops at a moment's notice.
20. There is a tendency for this disease to run in families.
21. It's a tendency which many scholars believe begins in childhood due to parents who overindulge their kids.
22. Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.
23. The tendency to become obese is at least in part hereditary.
24. Stewart has developed a tendency to mix it verbally with the opposition.
25. Her suicidal tendencies continued for several more weeks.
26. Helen had been struggling against suicidal tendencies.
27. We must check bad tendencies.
28. In recent years, there is a growing tendency for people to shop online, and most people more or less have the experience of shopping online.
29. Maintain friendships. In this world right now, there is a great tendency to move you to one side or the other, and be in conflict.
30. The party threw out the Trotskyist Militant Tendency.
31. His iconoclastic tendencies can get him into trouble.
32. I was always regarded in the Army with a certain amount of suspicion because of my left-wing tendencies.
33. This tendency in his thought is deepened by his suspicion of all Utopian political programmes.
34. Moving around throughout the day can inhibit a tendency to fidget and chatter.
35. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery.
36. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency toward snobbery.
37. There was an upward tendency in oil shares yesterday.
38. Tone down your kamikaze tendencies and take more prudent risks.
39. The army has become increasingly restless over the mounting separatist tendencies of the northern republics.
40. While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain—a trait called lodging.
41. These legislators argue that such a policy would reduce crime dramatically, since it would take people with a proven tendency to commit crimes off the streets permanently.
42. These plants have a tendency to grow in the more rural areas.
43. He readily admitted to the interviewer that he had a quick temper, with a tendency toward violence.
44. She exhibited none of the narcissistic and nihilistic tendencies of her peers.
45. I have a tendency to talk too much when I'm nervous.
46. She had a tendency to sing flat.
47. She has a strong natural tendency towards caution.
48. Conversely, teachers who have a tendency to "overdirect" can diminish their gifted pupils' learning autonomy.
49. Hartman describes Milton's tendency in Paradise Lost, and he takes this term from Coleridge: the tendency to stand ab extra, to stand from outside.
50. He had clear homicidal tendencies.
51. There is a growing tendency among employers to hire casual staff.
