Definition of Tendency

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Definition of Tendency
	Tendency Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Related Definitions: About, An, Any, Bring, Causal, Course, Direction, Drift, Effect, Efficient, Influence, Object, Or, Place, Result, To, Toward

Tendency Quotations

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Reinhold Niebuhr

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
David Ogilvy

Truth is a tendency.
R. Buckminster Fuller

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
Mao Tse-Tung

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
George Santayana

Tendency Translations

tendency in Afrikaans is lus
tendency in Danish is tendens
tendency in Dutch is wilsbeschikking, gesteldheid, aanleg
tendency in Finnish is taipumus
tendency in French is tendance, aptitude, inclinaison
tendency in German is Tendenz {f}, Tendenz, Neigung {f}, Absicht {f}
tendency in Italian is declinazione

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