Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "countertendency" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF COUNTERTENDENCY

countertendency  [ˈkaʊntəˌtendənsɪ] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COUNTERTENDENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Countertendency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COUNTERTENDENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of countertendency in the English dictionary

The definition of countertendency in the dictionary is an opposite tendency.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COUNTERTENDENCY


abundancy
əˈbʌndənsɪ
ascendancy
əˈsɛndənsɪ
ascendency
əˈsɛndənsɪ
attendancy
əˈtɛndənsɪ
co-dependency
ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛndənsɪ
correspondency
ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənsɪ
dependancy
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
dependency
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
despondency
dɪˈspɒndənsɪ
impendency
ɪmˈpendənsɪ
independency
ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənsɪ
intendancy
ɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
interdependency
ˌɪntədɪˈpɛndənsɪ
pendency
ˈpɛndənsɪ
redundancy
rɪˈdʌndənsɪ
resplendency
rɪˈsplɛndənsɪ
respondency
rɪˈspɒndənsɪ
superintendency
ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
tendency
ˈtɛndənsɪ
transcendency
trænˈsɛndənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COUNTERTENDENCY

counterstate
counterstep
counterstrategy
counterstream
counterstrike
countersubject
countersue
countersuit
countersunk
countertactic
countertenor
counterterror
counterterrorism
counterthreat
counterthrust
countertop
countertrade
countertrend
countertype
countervail

WORDS THAT END LIKE COUNTERTENDENCY

agency
ardency
bearish tendency
cadency
central tendency
co-presidency
coincidency
confidency
decadency
high-dependency
impudency
Militant Tendency
precedency
presidency
pudency
residency
revolving presidency
Ross Dependency
stridency
subsidency
vice-presidency

Synonyms and antonyms of countertendency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «countertendency» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF COUNTERTENDENCY

Find out the translation of countertendency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of countertendency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «countertendency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

countertendency
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

contratendencia
570 millions of speakers

English

countertendency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

countertendency
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

countertendency
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

countertendency
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

contratendência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

countertendency
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

contre-tendance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelahiran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gegentendenz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

countertendency
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

countertendency
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Countertendency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

countertendency
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

countertendency
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिदिनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

countertendency
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

controtendenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kontrgwarancja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

countertendency
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

countertendency
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

countertendency
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

countertendency
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

motten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

countertendency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of countertendency

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTERTENDENCY»

The term «countertendency» is used very little and occupies the 156.594 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Rarely used
27
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «countertendency» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of countertendency
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «countertendency».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COUNTERTENDENCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «countertendency» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «countertendency» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about countertendency

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERTENDENCY»

Discover the use of countertendency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to countertendency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Understanding Capital: Marx's Economic Theory
The first countertendency listed by Marx is in fact the possibility that the rate of exploitation may rise as a result of a fall in the value of labor-power with the rising productivity of labor. This possibility has already been analyzed by Marx in his ...
Duncan K. FOLEY, Duncan K Foley, 2009
2
The Logic of Marx's Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms
If this is the case then from a systematic perspective the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall breaks down. Marx did grant that a fall in the value of constant capital was a countertendency to the law. But from a systematic perspective the ...
Tony Smith, 1990
3
Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy
But if fallenness is a certain Zug—drift, pull, tendency—then hermeneutics must be the Gegen-zug, the counterpull, the countertendency; any adequate interpretation of Dasein can come about only by countering this tendency, reversing this ...
Brice R. Wachterhauser, 1986
4
Insight into Value: An Exploration of the Premises of a ...
The complex dynamics of organization in field situations, Arnheim remarks, "is not fully described by the tendency toward simple, regular, symmetrical structure but requires acknowledgment of a countertendency that meets tension reduction  ...
Andrew R. Fuller, 1990
5
Pop Standards: Music and Commerce in the Age of Rock
Another countertendency is that machines did not really replace workers, but rather carried out the more routine, repetitive work that belonged mostly to lower- skilled workers. Attewell maintains that this is where automation "is most successful” ...
Ehrick V. Long, 2008
6
Covenant as Ethical Commonwealth
Countertendency”. to. Societal. Disintegration. Having traced the nature of an ontological shift from substance ontology to an ontology of relationality as rooted in covenant, it is possible to turn to the remaining questions related to how this shift ...
Perry Simpson Huesmann, 2010
7
Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance Across a Stressed ...
COUNTERTENDENCY. In characterising the tendency to complexification in human evolution we have pointed at different times to important landmarks along the way. Here we have in mind the development of language, agriculture, writing,  ...
Joseph Camilleri, 2009
8
Marx's method in Capital: a reexamination
The trend is a statistical construction that (like other statistics) can be used to verify the usefulness or correctness of a hypothesis (including the tendency/ countertendency hypothesis). Finally, we have a tendency of the third type when only the ...
Fred Moseley, 1993
9
Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime: Lacan's Return to ...
And yet even as Krishna appropriates, momentarily, the discourse of the positive sublime, the words that he uses—“the creation and the dissolution"—powerfully underline a countertendency toward self-extinction in the Indian sublime ...
Vijay Mishra, 1998
10
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
The attempt to universalize the commodity form sets in motion a powerful countertendency, just as Marx argued that capitalism produced its own gravediggers in the form of the proletariat. The con- flict between tendency and countertendency ...
Fred Block, Margaret R. Somers, 2014

7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COUNTERTENDENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term countertendency is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The role of emotions in understanding psychosis, therapy and …
This enhanced attention to environmental factors is significant because it represents a countertendency to the general direction in which ... «Metapsychology, Dec 14»
2
A Critique of Heinrich's, 'Crisis Theory, the Law of the Tendency of …
It follows from this that Heinrich's example is either an example of a countertendency, in which case the law still holds. Or it is an example that, ... «Monthly Review, Nov 13»
3
We Are What We Hide
The countertendency that is created by a psychic or physical injury has been clinicalized and banalized along with countless other mysterious ... «New Yorker, Nov 13»
4
In the Beginning
... and the great rabbinical commentator Rashi as examples of a countertendency. They rejected interpretive inflation – a first step toward facing ... «Inside Higher Ed, Nov 12»
5
Vatican financial statement: a positive balance
... "thanks to the excellent performance of the Vatican Museums (in particular the increased number of visitors, a countertendency with respect ... «Spero News, Jul 11»
6
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Just as there's a tendency to glorify technological progress, there's a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine. In Plato's Phaedrus ... «Atlantic Online, Jun 08»
7
DOT DELIRIUM
In Bartlett's work the "countertendency" to the homogeneous grid, with its dumb inevitability -- the inevitability of the death instinct -- is what ... «Artnet, Nov 06»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Countertendency [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/countertendency>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z