different between tendency vs probability

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

From Middle French probabilité, from Latin prob?bilit?s (“probability, credibility”), from prob?bilis (“probable, credible”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??b??b?l?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??b??b?l??i/
• Hyphenation: prob?a?bil?i?ty
• Rhymes: -?l?ti

Noun

Wikibooks

probability (plural probabilities)

1. The state of being probable; likelihood.
2. An event that is likely to occur.
3. The relative likelihood of an event happening.
4. (mathematics) A number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening.

Derived terms

Related terms

• probable

Translations

See also

• odds
• possibility
• verisimilitude
• credence

Further reading

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