"tendency" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɛn.dən.si/ Audio: en-us-tendency.ogg Forms: tendencies [plural]
enPR: tĕnʹdən-sē Etymology: From Medieval Latin tendentia, from tendō. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ML.|tendentia}} Medieval Latin tendentia Head templates: {{en-noun}} tendency (plural tendencies)
  1. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward. Translations (likelihood of behaving in a particular way): tendencë [feminine] (Albanian), مَيْل (mayl) [masculine] (Arabic), نَزَعَة (nazaʕa) [feminine] (Arabic), միտում (mitum) (Armenian), տենդենցիա (tendencʻia) (Armenian), meyil (Azerbaijani), tendensiya (Azerbaijani), тэндэ́нцыя (tendéncyja) [feminine] (Belarusian), схі́льнасць (sxílʹnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), нахі́льнасць (naxílʹnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), тенде́нция (tendéncija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), скло́нност (sklónnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), tendència [feminine] (Catalan), 傾向 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 倾向 (zh-min-nan) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 傾向 (Chinese Cantonese), 倾向 (english: king¹ hoeng³) (Chinese Cantonese), 趨勢 (Chinese Mandarin), 趋势 (qūshì) (Chinese Mandarin), 傾向 (Chinese Mandarin), 倾向 (qīngxiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), sklon [masculine] (Czech), tendence [feminine] (Czech), tendens [common-gender] (Danish), neiging [feminine] (Dutch), emo (Esperanto), inklino (Esperanto), tendenco (Esperanto), tendents (Estonian), taipumus (Finnish), tendance [feminine] (French), ტენდენცია (ṭendencia) (Georgian), მიდრეკილება (midreḳileba) (Georgian), Tendenz (note: one would rather use a verb such as "zu (...) neigen" or tendieren) [feminine, rare] (German), τάση (tási) [feminine] (Greek), ροπή (ropí) [feminine] (Greek), tandans (Haitian Creole), נטייה \ נְטִיָּה (n'tiyá) [feminine] (Hebrew), प्रवृत्ति (pravŕtti) [masculine] (Hindi), irány (Hungarian), tendencia (Hungarian), kecenderungan (Indonesian), tendenza [feminine] (Italian), 傾向 (keikō) (alt: けいこう) (Japanese), 趨勢 (sūsei) (alt: すうせい) (Japanese), нысай (nysai) (Kazakh), үрдіс (ürdıs) (Kazakh), тенденция (tendensiä) (Kazakh), 경향 (gyeonghyang) (alt: 傾向) (Korean), 추세 (chuse) (alt: 趨勢) (Korean), тенденция (tendentsiya) (Kyrgyz), prōpensiō [feminine] (Latin), tendence [feminine] (Latvian), tendencija [feminine] (Lithuanian), тенденција (tendencija) [feminine] (Macedonian), kecenderungan (Malay), പ്രവണത (pravaṇata) (Malayalam), tendens [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), گرایش (gerâyeš) (Persian), Läne [neuter] (Plautdietsch), tendencja [feminine] (Polish), skłonność [feminine] (Polish), tendência [feminine] (Portuguese), tendință [feminine] (Romanian), înclinație [feminine] (Romanian), тенде́нция (tɛndɛ́ncija) [feminine] (Russian), скло́нность (sklónnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), тендѐнција [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), скло̏но̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), tendèncija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), sklȍnōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), sklon [masculine] (Slovak), tendencia [feminine] (Slovak), tendenca [feminine] (Slovene), nagnjenje [neuter] (Slovene), tendencia [feminine] (Spanish), tendens (Swedish), trend (Swedish), benägenhet (Swedish), майл (mayl) (Tajik), แนวโน้ม (nɛɛo-nóom) (Thai), rmamñe (Tocharian B), eğilim (Turkish), tandans (Turkish), тенде́нція (tendéncija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), схи́льність (sxýlʹnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), tendensiya (Uzbek), mayl (Uzbek), khuynh hướng (alt: 傾向) (Vietnamese), xu thế (alt: 趨勢) (Vietnamese)
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  2. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation. Categories (topical): Politics
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: inclination, disposition, propensity, penchant, trend Derived forms: central tendency, measure of central tendency, multitendency, Serota tendency, tendency tone, tendency writing

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          "text": "In some details, Britannia shows the trend towards American practice that was already apparent in later L.M.S.R. designs—for example, in regard to the mounting of the cab—and this tendency has been further developed in the footwalk with deep sideplating, mounted on the boiler, in place of the framing and splashers usual in British practice in the past.",
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    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Tajik translations",
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    "Terms with Tocharian B translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
    "Terms with Uzbek translations",
    "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "central tendency"
    },
    {
      "word": "measure of central tendency"
    },
    {
      "word": "multitendency"
    },
    {
      "word": "Serota tendency"
    },
    {
      "word": "tendency tone"
    },
    {
      "word": "tendency writing"
    }
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        "2": "ML.",
        "3": "tendentia"
      },
      "expansion": "Medieval Latin tendentia",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Medieval Latin tendentia, from tendō.",
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    {
      "form": "tendencies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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    {
      "args": {},
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "Denim has a tendency to fade.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I have a tendency to get bored after the first half an hour of a movie.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "There's a common tendency among first-game visitors to a casino to bet overcautiously.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 274:",
          "text": "In some details, Britannia shows the trend towards American practice that was already apparent in later L.M.S.R. designs—for example, in regard to the mounting of the cab—and this tendency has been further developed in the footwalk with deep sideplating, mounted on the boiler, in place of the framing and splashers usual in British practice in the past.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward."
      ],
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        [
          "likelihood",
          "likelihood"
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        [
          "tending",
          "tending"
        ]
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1974, James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 134:",
          "text": "Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, S. Onslow, Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948-57, Springer, →ISBN, page 234:",
          "text": "In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Richard Gillespie, Lourdes Lopez Nieto, Michael Waller, Factional Politics and Democratization, Routledge, →ISBN, page 83:",
          "text": "It reinforced the position of the conformist tendency within the party, since the majority of the candidates were old politicians, many of them members of Papandreou's centre-left CU faction back in the mid-1960s.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "politics",
          "politics"
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        "(politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation."
      ],
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        "government",
        "politics"
      ]
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      "ipa": "/ˈtɛn.dən.si/"
    },
    {
      "enpr": "tĕnʹdən-sē"
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    {
      "word": "inclination"
    },
    {
      "word": "disposition"
    },
    {
      "word": "propensity"
    },
    {
      "word": "penchant"
    },
    {
      "word": "trend"
    }
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendencë"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "mayl",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "مَيْل"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "nazaʕa",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "نَزَعَة"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "mitum",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "միտում"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tendencʻia",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "տենդենցիա"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "meyil"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "tendensiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "tendéncyja",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тэндэ́нцыя"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "sxílʹnascʹ",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "схі́льнасць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "naxílʹnascʹ",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "нахі́льнасць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tendéncija",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тенде́нция"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sklónnost",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "скло́нност"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendència"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "傾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "english": "king¹ hoeng³",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "倾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "傾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "zh-min-nan",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "倾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "趨勢"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qūshì",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "趋势"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "傾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qīngxiàng",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "倾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sklon"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendence"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tendens"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "neiging"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "emo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "inklino"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "tendenco"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "tendents"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "taipumus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendance"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṭendencia",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "ტენდენცია"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "midreḳileba",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "მიდრეკილება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "one would rather use a verb such as \"zu (...) neigen\" or tendieren",
      "raw_tags": [
        "in this sense"
      ],
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "Tendenz"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tási",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "τάση"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "ropí",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ροπή"
    },
    {
      "code": "ht",
      "lang": "Haitian Creole",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "tandans"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "n'tiyá",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "נטייה \\ נְטִיָּה"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pravŕtti",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "प्रवृत्ति"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "irány"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "tendencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "kecenderungan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendenza"
    },
    {
      "alt": "けいこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keikō",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "傾向"
    },
    {
      "alt": "すうせい",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sūsei",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "趨勢"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "nysai",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "нысай"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "ürdıs",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "үрдіс"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "tendensiä",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "тенденция"
    },
    {
      "alt": "傾向",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gyeonghyang",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "경향"
    },
    {
      "alt": "趨勢",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "chuse",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "추세"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "tendentsiya",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "тенденция"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prōpensiō"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendence"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendencija"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "tendencija",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тенденција"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "kecenderungan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "pravaṇata",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "പ്രവണത"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tendens"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "gerâyeš",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "گرایش"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Läne"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendencja"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skłonność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendência"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendință"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "înclinație"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tɛndɛ́ncija",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тенде́нция"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sklónnostʹ",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "скло́нность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тендѐнција"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "скло̏но̄ст"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendèncija"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sklȍnōst"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "sklon"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendenca"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "nagnjenje"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tendencia"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "tendens"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "trend"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "benägenhet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "mayl",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "майл"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "nɛɛo-nóom",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "แนวโน้ม"
    },
    {
      "code": "txb",
      "lang": "Tocharian B",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "rmamñe"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "eğilim"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "tandans"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "tendéncija",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "тенде́нція"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "sxýlʹnistʹ",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "схи́льність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "tendensiya"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "mayl"
    },
    {
      "alt": "傾向",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "khuynh hướng"
    },
    {
      "alt": "趨勢",
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "likelihood of behaving in a particular way",
      "word": "xu thế"
    }
  ],
  "word": "tendency"
}

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  "msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": kheng-hiòng vs. zh-min-nan",
  "path": [
    "tendency"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "tendency",
  "trace": ""
}

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