tendencies
- 1Plural of tendency.
The therapist helped her recognize the self-critical tendencies that shaped her decisions.
Voters across the region displayed conservative tendencies in the last election.
Note
The plural carries both meanings of the singular. It can count habits of mind or behavior, as in self-critical tendencies or a voter's conservative tendencies. In politics it can also name organized factions within a larger party, so the rival tendencies of a movement are groups of people, not inclinations. The spelling follows the usual pattern for a consonant plus -y: tendency becomes tendencies.
tendencies is a form of tendency
tendency, noun: An inclination to behave in a certain way, or a drift in a particular direction. Full entry
- Forms
- tendencytendencies plural
- Spelling
- tendency → tendencies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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