Definition of tendency

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Tendency (n.) Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result..

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Northness :: Northness (n.) A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.
Solubility :: Solubility (n.) The tendency to separate readily into parts by spurious articulations, as the pods of tick trefoil..
Malignancy :: Malignancy (n.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever..
Deliquescence :: Deliquescence (n.) The act of deliquescing or liquefying; process by which anything deliquesces; tendency to melt.
Antalkaline :: Antalkaline (n.) Anything that neutralizes, or that counteracts an alkaline tendency in the system..
Direction :: Direction (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction..
Consumptiveness :: Consumptiveness (n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption..
Enervative :: Enervative (a.) Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening..
Septicity :: Septicity (n.) Tendency to putrefaction; septic quality.
Damningness :: Damningness (n.) Tendency to bring damnation.
Subverted :: Subversive (a.) Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin.
Centripetency :: Centripetency (n.) Tendency toward the center.
Tide :: Tide (prep.) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current..
Floppy :: Floppy (n.) Having a tendency to flop or flap; as, a floppy hat brim..
Expansive :: Expansive (a.) Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air..
Moment :: Moment (n.) Tendency, or measure of tendency, to produce motion, esp. motion about a fixed point or axis..
Birth :: Birth (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
Herpes :: Herpes (n.) An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another..
Inhabitativeness :: Inhabitativeness (n.) A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
Galvanotropism :: Galvanotropism (n.) The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of a galvanic current.
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