A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward. / (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

plural of tendency

Obsolete form of tendency.

plural of tendence

plural of tendency tone

(music) a pitch that tends to move toward another pitch, usually the submediant or the leading tone

(literature) Literature produced in order to promote a cause or serve a rhetorical purpose that the writing itself never makes explicit. These purposes are typically social, political, or moral.

plural of tendency writing

(derogatory) A branch of the modern art movement, especially in the UK, as epitomised by art chosen for the Tate and the Turner Prize.

(statistics, probability) A measure of location for a batch, a sample, or a distribution characterizing a value around which are spread the members or the distribution.