tendency vs attitude

attitude vs tendency

tendency and attitude both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
tendency	Yes	No	No	No
attitude	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, attitude is a hypernym of tendency; that is, attitude is a word with a broader meaning than tendency:

tendency: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others
attitude: a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways

Other hypernyms of tendency include mental attitude.

tendency (noun)	attitude (noun)
a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect	a theatrical pose created for effect
an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others	the arrangement of the body and its limbs
an inclination to do something	a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
a general direction in which something tends to move	position of aircraft or spacecraft relative to a frame of reference (the horizon or direction of motion)

Difference between tendency and attitude

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