Tendency

Noun

 * 1) a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.

Adjectives for Tendency
pensive; sadistic; moralizing; abnormal; consequent; contrary; general; inevitable; exhibitionistic; decadent;   abortive;  immoral; dominant; latent; worldly; picturesque;  belated;   remote;   revolutionary; marked; overruling; hereditary; evil; boyish; vicious; rationalistic; opposing; neurotic; abounding; pernicious; ambivalent; diverging; apprehensive; curtailed; philosophical; unconscious; speculative; primitive; morbid; life-abridging; transitory; herding; incestuous; rising; tubercular; undevout; natural; progressive; youthful; extravagant; erratic; notable; irreligious; conflicting; realistic; cancerous; centripetal; social; chronic; growing; powerful; stubborn; pseudo-classic; gravitating; materializing; obnoxious; dispositional; constitutional; pragmatic; aggravating; prevalent; remarkable; dangerous; healthy; observable;  incorrigible;  curious;  devotional; pernicious; dispersive; culinary; commercial; monopolistic.

Verbs for Tendency
augment—; bolster—; check—; combat—; counteract—; counterbalance—; cultivate—; eliminate—; encourage—; exhibit—; foster—; inherit—; neutralize—; nurse—; nurture—; observe—; offset—; outgrow—; overcome—; perceive—; promote—; reflect—; resist—; restrain—; smother—; stifle—; temper—; warp—; —conduces toward; — endangers; —jeopardizes; —predisposes.

Thesaurus
affinity, aim, an ear for, an eye for, animus, aptitude, aptness, azimuth, bag, bearing, bent, bias, body-build, brand, capacity for, cast, chance, character, characteristic, characteristics, chosen kind, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, course, crasis, cup of tea, current, curve, custom, dharma, diathesis, direction, direction line, disposition, drift, druthers, eccentricity, ethos, expectation, fair expectation, fancy, favor, favorable prospect, felicity, fiber, flair, frame, genius, genius for, gift for, good chance, grain, habit, heading, helmsmanship, hue, humor, humors, idiosyncrasy, ilk, inclination, inclining, individualism, innate aptitude, kidney, kind, lay, leaning, liability, lie, likelihood, likeliness, line, line of direction, line of march, make, makeup, mental set, mettle, mind, mind-set, mold, movement, nature, navigation, odds, orientation, outlook, partiality, particular choice, penchant, personal choice, physique, piloting, point, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, presumption, presumptive evidence, probabilism, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, property, prospect, quality, quarter, range, readiness, reasonable ground, reasonable hope, run, set, shift, slant, somatotype, sort, spirit, stamp, steerage, steering, strain, streak, stripe, style, suchness, susceptibility, system, taste, temper, temperament, tenor, thing, tone, track, trend, turn, turn for, turn of mind, twist, type, usage, vein, verisimilitude, warp, way, well-grounded hope

Etymology
Ultimately from the Latin tendere / tendō.

Synonyms

 * inclination
 * disposition
 * propensity
 * penchant
 * trend

Translations

 * Arabic: ميل, نزعة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: emo, inklino, tendenco
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: (not often used in this sense, one would rather use a verb such as "zu (...) neigen" or tendieren)
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew:


 * Hindi: प्रवृत्ति
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 傾向
 * Korean:
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: tendencja
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: tendință, înclinație
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: tendens, trend, benägenhet