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n. Movement or prevailing movement in a given direction: observed the tendency of the wind; the shoreward tendency of the current.

n. A characteristic likelihood: fabric that has a tendency to wrinkle.

n. A predisposition to think, act, behave, or proceed in a particular way.

n. An implicit direction or purpose: not openly liberal, but that is the tendency of the book.

n. An implicit point of view in written or spoken matter; a bias.

n. a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.

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

n. Movement, or inclination to move, in some particular direction or toward some end or purpose; bent, leaning, or inclination toward some object, effect, or result; inclining or contributing influence.

n. Synonyms Propensity, Inclination, etc. (see bent), drift, direction, bearing.

n. a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect

n. an inclination to do something

n. a general direction in which something tends to move

n. an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

"Your expression, "and tends to depart in a slight degree," I think hardly grammatical; a _tendency_ to depart cannot very well be said to be in a slight degree; a _departure_ can, but a tendency must be either a _slight tendency_ or a _strong tendency_; the degree to which the departure may reach must depend on favourable or unfavourable causes in addition to the tendency itself."

inclination    direction    way   

inclination   

scope    aim    drift    inclination    proneness    disposition    propensity    trend   

ascendancy    ascendency    dependency   

impulse    habit    disposition    attitude    principle    tradition    weakness    belief    development    trait