tendencies
Ingrained behavioral patterns
Tendencies is the plural of tendency—an inclination or disposition toward something.
A person with violent tendencies is prone to violence.
A market with upward tendencies generally rises.
The word suggests pattern rather than certainty: He has tendencies toward perfectionism, but he can let things go when needed.
Innate tendency toward something
- proclivityInherent tendency toward something
- penchantIngrained liking or tendency
- dispositionInherent character or arrangement
- affinityNatural liking or attraction
predilection · bent · leaning · partiality · bias · propensity · preference · fondness
Established sequences of actions
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- compulsionsUncontrollable urges to act
- obsessionsPersistent dominating thoughts
- addictionsUncontrollable substance dependencies
fixations · vices · patterns · impulses · urges · proclivities · repetitions · automatisms
Recurring arrangements or designs
- habitsRegular repeated behaviors
- conductManner of behaving
- actionsThings someone does
- practicesRepeated training sessions
reactions · responses · mannerisms · quirks · idiosyncrasies · customs · routines · traits
Prevailing directions of change
- distributionsActs of parceling out
- correlationsStatistical relationships between variables
- probabilitiesQuantified chances of events
- frequenciesOccurrence rates or wavelengths
averages · norms · deviations · patterns · skew · variance · outliers · regression
Properties holding across all
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- analyticExamining by decomposition
- syntheticProduced artificially, not natural
- agglutinatingCausing adhesion into masses
predisposition
Innate tendency toward something
- proclivityInherent tendency toward something
- penchantIngrained liking or tendency
- dispositionInherent character or arrangement
affinity · predilection · bent · leaning · partiality · bias · propensity · preference · fondness · liking
routines
Established sequences of actions
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- compulsionsUncontrollable urges to act
- obsessionsPersistent dominating thoughts
addictions · fixations · vices · patterns · impulses · urges · proclivities · repetitions · automatisms · defaults
patterns
Recurring arrangements or designs
practices · reactions · responses · mannerisms · quirks · idiosyncrasies · customs · routines · traits · characteristics
trends
Prevailing directions of change
- distributionsActs of parceling out
- correlationsStatistical relationships between variables
- probabilitiesQuantified chances of events
frequencies · averages · norms · deviations · patterns · skew · variance · outliers · regression · mean
universals
Properties holding across all
- alignmentCorrect relative positioning
- analyticExamining by decomposition
- syntheticProduced artificially, not natural
agglutinating · isolating · ergative-absolutive · inflectional
- quirkseccentricities, idiosyncrasies, peculiarities, oddities, foibles
- preferencespreferences, prefer, likes, like, liking
- behaviorshabit, aggressive, agitation, conduct, passive
- factionsfactions, faction, splinter groups, splinter party, blocs
- connectionslink, links, connect, connection, tie
- personalitypersonality, trait, temperament, traits, character
tendenciesrandomness
Lack of predictable pattern
unpredictability · irregularities · anomalies · chaos · aberrations
tendenciesaversions
Strong feelings against
dislikes · disinclinations · repulsions · reluctances · resistances
- quirky tendenciesDistinctive unusual habits
extend, pretend, tend, intend, attendant, extensive, intended, tendency, pretended