different between tendency vs proclive

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

Latin proclivis (“sloping, inclined”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p???kl?v/

Adjective

proclive (comparative more proclive, superlative most proclive)

1. Having a tendency by nature; prone; proclivous.

   • Eterne, intense, profuse,—still throwing up
     The golden spray of multitudinous worlds
     In measure to the proclive weight and rush
     Of His inner nature […]

Italian

Etymology

From Latin proclivis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pro?kli.ve/
• Rhymes: -ive

Adjective

proclive (plural proclivi)

1. (literary) prone

Derived terms

• proclività

Latin

Adjective

pr?cl?ve

1. nominative neuter singular of pr?cl?vis
2. accusative neuter singular of pr?cl?vis
3. vocative neuter singular of pr?cl?vis

References

• proclive in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• proclive in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin proclivis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?o?klibe/, [p?o?kli.??e]

Adjective

proclive (plural proclives)

1. inclined, prone

   Synonyms: inclinado, predispuesto, propenso

Related terms

• proclividad

Further reading

• “proclive” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.