- inclination: 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"
- leaning: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
- 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"
- a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"
- a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward
- (tendance, Tendenz). Marx describes a number of the capitalist mode of production as tendencies (notably the tendency of the rate of profit to fall). ...