Thesaurus / tendencies
FEEDBACKsynonyms for tendencies
synonyms for tendencies
- penchant
- habit
- trend
- weakness
- leaning
- propensity
- bias
- impulse
- shift
- type
- set
- bent
- mind
- thing
- custom
- current
- way
- usage
- run
- proclivity
- susceptibility
- drift
- slant
- partiality
- liability
- disposition
- temperament
- mindset
- readiness
- predisposition
- proneness
- turn
- predilection
- addiction
- affection
- inclining
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Home-sickness and yearning effaced all other impressions, and destroyed all his earlier tendencies, desires, and thoughts.
THE LIFE & LETTERS OF PETER ILICH TCHAIKOVSKYMODESTE TCHAIKOVSKYAnd the glorious truth of God, in contrast with it in its character and tendencies, should be displayed.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMBut in the day of effectual calling, a complete change is produced upon the moral tendencies of the soul.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMBetween the tendencies of his nature, and the demands of the Divine law, there is no correspondence.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMExemplary punishment is to be visited upon me for "precocious godlessness, dangerous tendencies, and insubordination."
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANOf course the cook sought to counteract such tendencies, but he had to be very circumspect, for Sambo resented insults fiercely.
THE FLOATING LIGHT OF THE GOODWIN SANDSR.M. BALLANTYNEHe was somewhat inclined to sybaritism; not quite emancipated from the tendencies of his bourgeois youth.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANHe summed up in a brief and poetical form the general idea of the book and indicated its tendencies.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, HIS LIFETHOPHILE GAUTIERAfter 1816, Dutocq outwardly affected very pronounced religious tendencies because he believed them useful to his advancement.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHEWithin the National Church there was a great deal to counterbalance these injurious tendencies and check their growth.
THE ENGLISH CHURCH IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYCHARLES J. ABBEY AND JOHN H. OVERTON