tendency

Roget category 176

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.8. Causation
›› 1.8.4. Indirect power

#176. Tendency

noun

tendency — aptness, aptitude — proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility — conatus [Lat.], nisus [Lat.] — liability etc. 177 — quality, nature, temperament — idiocrasy^†, idiosyncrasy — cast, vein, grain — humor, mood — drift etc. (direction) 278 — conduciveness, conducement^† — applicability etc. (utility) 644 — subservience etc. (instrumentality) 631.

verb

tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards — promote etc. (aid) 707.

adjective

tending etc. v. — conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to — liable etc. 177 — subservient etc. (instrumental) 631 — useful etc. 644 — subsidiary etc. (helping) 707.

adverb

for, whither.

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