Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a tendency; of the nature of tendency; exhibiting a tendency or bias.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or relating to a tendency.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tendential.

Examples

  • In 'Capital', as a tendential law of the development of capital, Marx predicted it as the coming geometric progressive explosion of global pauperization of millions of global workers, and even of the middle and upper classes.

    Obama, this is no economic crisis, it is the systemic breakdown of capitalism 2009

  • Is it not the case that the truly new, and disorienting, character of modernity is its seemingly being driven by merely material, statistical, tendential, "economic" considerations?

    Archive 2009-01-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • Is it not the case that the truly new, and disorienting, character of modernity is its seemingly being driven by merely material, statistical, tendential, "economic" considerations?

    Modernism and social life Daniel Little 2009

  • Suddenly, comrades remembered the first theory of globalization (Manifesto), of the transhistoric "democratic" (French) Revolution which inexorably, according to the tendential economic laws as explained in "Das Kapital", was realizing itself in our modern critical and depressive times of global recession.

    Marxism ... Concerning modern theory and praxis of global socialist revolution 2008

  • Like fascism itself, capitalist depression is not a historical accident, it is structural, it obeys the tendential developmental laws of world imperialism, inter alia, brought forth by wild speculation, murderous concentration, treacherous competition, inexorable merging and perpetual monopolization.

    Happy New Year 2009: You cannot poison the corporate viper with its own venom! 2008

  • This is not happening because of anti-capitalism, on the contrary, this is brought about by the tendential laws and profound contradictions of the dialectical development of capitalism, of imperialism, of globalization, of competition, centralization and monopolization.

    Venezuela: current historical context of the emancipatory future of our Bolivarian Revolution 2008

  • For a practician faced with the task of putting digested slurry to good use, the following tendential observations may be helpful:

    3. The agricultural setting 1989

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.