| 单词 | tendency |
| 释义 | tendency (once / 177 pages) n A tendency is an inclination to do something. For example, dogs have a tendency to bark at strangers and the mail man. We all have tendencies: things we're inclined to do, or like to do, or just can't help doing. Morning people have a tendency to get up early. Basketball players usually have a tendency to go right or left. Optimists have a tendency to look on the bright side of things; pessimists have the opposite tendency. Other things have tendencies too, like how the stock market tends to go up and down. WORD FAMILYtendency: tendencies, tendencious, tendentious+/tend: tended, tendency, tender, tending, tends/tended: untended/tendentious: tendentiously, tendentiousness/tender: tendered, tenderer, tenderest, tendering, tenderise, tenderize, tenderized, tenderly, tenderness, tenders/tenderise: tenderisation, tenderised, tenderiser/tenderize: tenderization, tenderizer, tenderizes, tenderizing/tenderizer: tenderizers/tenderness: tendernesses/tending: tendings USAGE EXAMPLESSpurning the American tendency to treat every ailment with medication, he instead explored the body’s ability to heal itself. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) As new research from our laboratory suggests, implicit bias is grounded in a basic human tendency to divide the social world into groups. New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) A recently released special by George Carlin, “I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die,” was a welcome reminder of his apocalyptic tendencies. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1n an inclination to do something Syn|Hyper leaning, propensity inclination that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking 2n an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others a tendency to be too strict Syn|Hypo|Hyper disposition, inclination direction a general course along which something has a tendency to develop drift, movement, trenda general tendency to change (as of opinion) Calla special disposition (as if from a divine source) to pursue a particular course denominationalismthe tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations devicesan inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' sympathy, understandingan inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion favoritism, favouritisman inclination to favor some person or group leaning, proclivity, propensitya natural inclination bent, seta relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way literalisma disposition to interpret statements in their literal sense perseverationthe tendency for a memory or idea to persist or recur without any apparent stimulus for it predispositionan inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way favor, favouran inclination to approve disapproval, disfavor, disfavour, dislikean inclination to withhold approval from some person or group partiality, partisanshipan inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives impartiality, nonpartisanshipan inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally tenora settled or prevailing or habitual course of a person's life evolutionary trenda general direction of evolutionary change gravitationa figurative movement toward some attraction orientation, predilection, preferencea predisposition in favor of something doghousean idiomatic term for being in disfavor reprobationsevere disapproval anthropocentricity, anthropocentrisman inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values ethnocentrismbelief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group Eurocentrismbelief in the preeminence of Europe and the Europeans bias, preconception, prejudicea partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation tilta slight but noticeable partiality localism, provincialism, sectionalisma partiality for some particular place unfairnesspartiality that is not fair or equitable disinterestednessfreedom from bias or from selfish motives candor, candour, fair-mindedness, fairnessability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty attitude, mental attitude a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways 3n a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect fabric with a tendency to shrink Syn|Hypo|Hyper inclination heterosis, hybrid vigor (genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent buoyancythe tendency to float in water or other liquid electronegativity, negativity(chemistry) the tendency of an atom or radical to attract electrons in the formation of an ionic bond stainability(cytology) the capacity of cells or cell parts to stain specifically with certain dyes desirean inclination to want things basophiliathe tendency of cells to stain with basic dyes hunger, hungriness, thirst, thirstinessstrong desire for something (not food or drink) greedexcessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves disposition a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing 4n a general direction in which something tends to move the shoreward tendency of the current Syn|Hyper trend direction, way a line leading to a place or point |
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