Tendencies
Urges and tendencies are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Urges" instead a noun "Tendencies".
Urges
Tendencies and urges are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Tendencies" instead a noun "Urges".
Both words in one sentence
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Begbie has gone through some by The Blade Artist, becoming more well-read, amicable and accepting of others, though his violent, psychopathic tendencies and urges - apparently stemming from what American analysts diagnose as intermittent explosive disorder - tend to resurface.
Source: Literature / Trainspotting - But as several stories note, maybe you only went to the machine because you already had suicidal tendencies, and it only confirmed your prior urges.
Source: Literature / Machine of Death -
Philemon is the Anthropomorphic Personification of humanity's creative urges and upward-striving nature, while Nyarlathotep embodies humanity's self-destructive and hateful tendencies.
Source: The Anti-God
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