Quality
Tendency
Tendency noun - An established pattern of behavior.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- feeling and quality
- feeling and tendency
- affection and quality
- affection and tendency
- spirit and quality
- spirit and tendency
- talent and quality
- talent and tendency
- character and quality
- character and tendency
- peculiarity and quality
- peculiarity and tendency
- capacity and quality
- capacity and tendency
How words are described
| human | human quality | human tendency |
| good | good quality | good tendency |
| high | high quality | high tendency |
| low | low quality | low tendency |
| Other adjectives: notable, particular, similar, certain, disturbing, real, great, bad, terrible, horrible, interesting, general, less, greater, strange, increasing, perceived, higher. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Electricity can stir up the "like attracts like" quality to heal Prometheans, but exposure to fire is like taking a human's natural tendency to heal all the way into cancer territory.
Source: Phlebotinum Overload -
The gratitude is purely sarcastic, pointing up the unfortunate tendency of this trope to collide with Sturgeon's Law in terms of the quality of the actual work.
Source: In Memoriam -
YouTube has a tendency to respond to slowly-loading videos by reducing the quality automatically.
Source: Annoying Video Game Helper
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