tendency

Noun
  1. An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others (synset 106206319)
    "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict"
    is a type of: attitude, mental attitude - a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
    subtypes:
    • direction - a general course along which something has a tendency to develop
    • drift, movement, trend - a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
    • call - a special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course
    • denominationalism - the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations
    • devices - an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'
    • sympathy, understanding - an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
    • favoritism, favouritism - an inclination to favor some person or group
    • leaning, proclivity, propensity - a natural inclination
    • bent, set - a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
    • literalism - a disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense
    • perseveration - the tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it
    • predisposition - an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way
    • favor, favour - an inclination to approve
    • disapproval, disfavor, disfavour, dislike - an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
    • partiality, partisanship - an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
    • impartiality, nonpartisanship - an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally
    same as: disposition, inclination
  2. An inclination to do something (synset 107514352)
    "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
    is a type of: inclination - that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking
    same as: leaning, propensity
  3. A characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect (synset 104951225)
    "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink"
    is a type of: disposition - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing
    subtypes:
    • heterosis, hybrid vigor - (genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent
    • buoyancy - the tendency to float in water or other liquid
    • electronegativity, negativity - (chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond
    • stainability - (cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes
    • desire - an inclination to want things
    same as: inclination
  4. A general direction in which something tends to move (synset 108699515)
    "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"
    is a type of: direction, way - a line leading to a place or point
    same as: trend

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