Noun
Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? Ernest Hemingway
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. William Howard Taft
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. Mikhail Bakunin
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. Tim Berners-Lee
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. Margaret Fuller