persuasion(BELIEFS)
If there is a tendency for something to happen, it is likely to happen or it often happens: 趋势
There is a tendency for unemployment to rise in the summer.夏季的失业率有上升的趋势。
If there is a tendency to do something, it starts to happen more often or starts to increase: （某事发展的）倾向
[ + to infinitive ]There is a growing tendency to regard money more highly than quality of life.越来越多的人倾向于把金钱看得重于生活质量。
He complained that there was a tendency to equate right-wing politics with self-interest.他抱怨说，人们往往会把右翼政见和自私自利混为一谈。
There is a tendency in films to make the equation between violence and excitement.
Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.显然有些人天生就容易患某些肿瘤。
She's one of those authors who has a tendency to overwrite.她是那种写作风格常会拖泥带水的作家。
Our best intentions are sometimes subverted by our natural tendency to selfishness.我们的良好意图有时会被自私的本性所破坏。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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tendency | American Dictionary

tendency
noun[ C ]
us/ˈten·dən·si/
a likelihood to happen or to have a particular characteristic or effect:
She has a tendency to work late.
There’s a growing tendency to try kids as adults.

Examples of tendency

tendency
Such stimulus appraisals generate tendencies to undertake mental and motor activity in relation to a stimulus.
At the same time, the colonies were already exhibiting strong tendencies toward a balanced, integrated economy.
Only in 1970 was the presidential election a balanced competition between three candidates reflecting the three tendencies.
Taking a closer look at the performance of two proficient, balanced bilinguals with above-average literacy skills, these global tendencies are confirmed.
In addition, there are strong tendencies towards ' 'privatization' ' of testing and certification.
Results show that tendencies towards the use of spatial systems seem to be much clearer than the approaches towards spatial design.
Making the image even more coherent, these immortal tendencies get reinforced by the deliberate presentation of his body on the iconographical level.
The constitution lacked institutional devices to counteract centrifugal tendencies and moderate political conflicts in the provinces.
Cross-linguistic tendencies for particular properties to co-occur may then form the basis for distinguishing particular word-prosodic types.
The power and capacity of the state (in its dispersed form) was largely directed to supporting and enforcing these tendencies.
Consequently, tendencies for perceived circular or helical motions can hardly be based upon internalization of invariant environmental features.
Such tendencies can lead to myopically self-interested political interventions into policymaking and public administration, with economically damaging consequences.
On the contrary, they all emphasize the deep connection of language policies to wider political and economic tendencies.
At the same time frivolous and extravagant habits have set in, and even rash and extreme tendencies are not unknown.
Authoritarian tendencies in policy making remain a major problem, especially in terms of the internal decision-making mechanisms of many political parties.
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Collocations withtendency

tendency

These are words often used in combination with tendency.

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aggressive tendency
As indicated earlier, it has been demonstrated that girls are more likely than boys to express their aggressive tendencies in relational terms.
central tendency
This comparison can be quantified using a statistical measure of centraltendency and dispersion.
dangerous tendency
Second, there is a dangeroustendency to think (when anyone is short of ideas) that we need more information, more definitions of roles, above all more statistics, more data.
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