different between tendency vs aptitude

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin tendere / tend?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?nd?nsi/
• Hyphenation: ten?den?cy

Noun

tendency (plural tendencies)

1. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.

2. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
   • 1974, James Boggs, Grace Lee Boggs, Revolution and Evolution, NYU Press ?ISBN, page 134

     Mao launched the struggle against the vulgar materialist tendency within the party as early as 1937.

   • 1997, S. Onslow, Backbench Debate within the Conservative Party and its Influence on British Foreign Policy, 1948-57, Springer ?ISBN, page 234

     In stark contrast to the Europeanist tendency within the party and the Suez Group, this group had a short history.

   • 2013, Richard Gillespie, Lourdes Lopez Nieto, Michael Waller, Factional Politics and Democratization, Routledge ?ISBN, page 83

     It reinforced the position of the conformist tendency within the party, since the majority of the candidates were old politicians, many of them members of Papandreou's centre-left CU faction back in the mid-1960s.

Synonyms

• inclination
• disposition
• propensity
• penchant
• trend

Derived terms

• multitendency

Translations

English

Etymology

Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). Doublet of attitude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æpt??tju?d/

Noun

aptitude (countable and uncountable, plural aptitudes)

1. Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

   Synonyms: talent, knack; see also Thesaurus:skill

2. The condition of being suitable.

   Synonyms: appropriateness, suitability

Translations

Further reading

• aptitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aptitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin aptit?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.ti.tyd/

Noun

aptitude f (plural aptitudes)

1. aptitude

Related terms

• apte

Further reading

• “aptitude” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).