"tendency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

tendency sustantivo

tendency + verbo
Kolokacji: 13
tendency makes • tendency leads • tendency causes • tendency exists • tendency seems • ...
verbo + tendency
Kolokacji: 9
show a tendency • display tendencies • exhibit tendencies • represent tendencies • tendency is seen • ...
adjetivo + tendency
Kolokacji: 127
natural tendency • strong tendency • suicidal tendency • general tendency • violent tendency • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 34
(2) strong, occasional
Kolokacji: 2
(8) unfortunate, regrettable
Kolokacji: 2
(12) homosexual, lesbian
Kolokacji: 2
(16) marked, pronounced
Kolokacji: 2
(18) genetic, familial
Kolokacji: 2
(19) disturbing, distressing
Kolokacji: 2
(20) nationalist, nationalistic
Kolokacji: 2
(21) alarming, nasty, disconcerting
Kolokacji: 3
(23) artistic, stylistic, literary
Kolokacji: 3
(24) sadistic, masochistic
Kolokacji: 2
(26) fascist, Communist
Kolokacji: 2
(30) latent, unhealthy
Kolokacji: 2
1. latent tendency = ukryta skłonność latent tendency
  • Undeliberate thought is often an expression of latent tendencies (anusaya), which are conditioned by the volitional nexus of the past.
  • Manas is mainly the mental activity which follows from volitions, whether immediately, or separated by time and caused by the activation of a latent tendency.
  • Opponents of constitutional change said it would stir up latent racist tendencies.
  • It takes specific cultural processes and relationships to, as it were, spark off these latent tendencies.
  • Mr. Sellars seemed to be implying that the music might thus bear latent operatic tendencies worth bringing out.
  • Lyotard saw 'postmodernism' as a latent tendency within thought throughout time and not a narrowly-limited historical period.
  • Such latent tendency would be shown by their producing the red feathers when old, or diseased in their ovaria.
  • Apart from a few latent tendencies.
  • Or did I have "latent tendencies"?
2. unhealthy tendency = niezdrowa skłonność unhealthy tendency
(31) inevitable, fatal
Kolokacji: 2
(34) overwhelming, high
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + tendency
Kolokacji: 12
for one's tendency • of tendencies • in one's tendency • about one's tendency • with a tendency • ...

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