Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Tendency

Nouns
  • tendency
  • aptness, aptitude
  • proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility
  • liability etc. Liability
  • quality, nature, temperament
  • idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy
  • cast, vein, grain
  • humor, mood
  • drift etc. (direction) Direction
  • conduciveness, conducement
  • applicability etc. (utility) Utility
  • subservience etc. (instrumentality) Instrumentality.
Verbs
  • tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards
  • promote etc. (aid) Aid.
Adjectives
  • tending etc. v.
  • conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to
  • liable etc. Liability
  • subservient etc. (instrumental) Instrumentality
  • useful etc. Utility
  • subsidiary etc. (helping) Aid.
Adverbs
  • for, whither.