tendency

tendency is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
2. noun. a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect

   "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"

   "fabric with a tendency to shrink"

   Synonyms: inclination

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

   "he had an inclination to give up too easily"

   "a tendency to be too strict"

   Synonyms: disposition, inclination

4. noun. an inclination to do something

   "he felt leanings toward frivolity"

   Synonyms: leaning, propensity

5. noun. a general direction in which something tends to move

   "the shoreward tendency of the current"

   "the trend of the stock market"

   Synonyms: trend

Synonyms

inclination, disposition, leaning, propensity, trend

Common word forms

tendencies

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