Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for tendency
Synonyms for tendency: disposition, trend and inclination. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for tendency
Interchangeable with tendency, one per sense
Audited under tendency's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one tendency carries in that sense.
- dispositionnoun, in the sense "an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others"
- trendnoun, in the sense "a general direction in which something tends to move"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name tendency as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- inclinationinclination is a noun in the sense "a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect"
two of these come from tendency's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
A tendency to be too strict.
The true synonym
disposition
Same sentence, swapped: A disposition to be too strict.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for tendency in the sentence quoted.
- trend
- stance
- acceptance
a general direction in which something tends to move
The shoreward tendency of the current.
The true synonym
trend
Same sentence, swapped: The shoreward trend of the current.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where tendency stands in the sentence above.
- frame
- makeup
- system
Where tendency turns up in the game
tendency is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play tendency
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tendency reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from thinking and knowing at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tendency carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.