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The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Meaning of "tendentiousness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TENDENTIOUSNESS

tendentiousness  [tɛnˈdɛnʃəsnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TENDENTIOUSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tendentiousness 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 TENDENTIOUSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tendency

Tendency may refer to: In film: ▪ Tendency film, a name given to the socially conscious, left-leaning films produced in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s In finance: ▪ Tendency of the rate of profit to fall, a hypothesis in economics and political economy, generally accepted in the 19th century, but rejected by mainstream economists today ▪ Seasonal tendencies In medicine: ▪ Bleeding tendency In music: ▪ Suicidal Tendencies, a hardcore/crossover thrash band that was founded in Venice, Los Angeles, California, in 1981 by the leader and only permanent member, singer Mike Muir ▪ Suicidal Tendencies, the eponymous debut album by the American hardcore punk band Suicidal Tendencies ▪ "Tendencies", a song by Hollywood Undead on the 2011 album American Tragedy In politics, it is often used by far left-wing groups for an organized unit or political faction ▪ Multi-tendency, when used in regards to a political organization, especially a left-wing...

Definition of tendentiousness in the English dictionary

The definition of tendentiousness in the dictionary is the quality or state of having or showing an intentional tendency or bias, esp a controversial one.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TENDENTIOUSNESS


cautiousness
ˈkɔːʃəsnɪs
conscientiousness
ˌkɒnʃɪˈɛnʃəsnɪs
contentiousness
kənˈtenʃəsnɪs
facetiousness
fəˈsiːʃəsnɪs
ferociousness
fəˈrəʊʃəsnɪs
graciousness
ˈɡreɪʃəsnɪs
infectiousness
ɪnˈfɛkʃəsnɪs
judiciousness
dʒuːˈdɪʃəsnɪs
licentiousness
laɪˈsɛnʃəsnɪs
pretentiousness
prɪˈtɛnʃəsnɪs
righteousness
ˈraɪtʃəsnɪs
sagaciousness
səˈɡeɪʃəsnɪs
self-righteousness
ˌselfˈraɪtʃəsnɪs
semiconsciousness
ˌsɛmɪˈkɒnʃəsnɪs
sententiousness
sɛnˈtɛnʃəsnɪs
spaciousness
ˈspeɪʃəsnɪs
suspiciousness
səsˈpɪʃəsnɪs
unconsciousness
ʌnˈkɒnʃəsnɪs
unrighteousness
ʌnˈraɪtʃəsnɪs
viciousness
ˈvɪʃəsnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TENDENTIOUSNESS

tendencially
tendencies
tendencious
tendenciously
tendenciousness
tendency
tendential
tendentially
tendentious
tendentiously
tender
tender loving care
tender offer
tenderable
tenderer
tenderfoot
tenderhearted
tenderheartedly
tenderheartedness
tendering

WORDS THAT END LIKE TENDENTIOUSNESS

biliousness
business
callousness
carelessness
consciousness
deliciousness
deviousness
flawlessness
heedlessness
helplessness
hilariousness
homelessness
hopelessness
lawlessness
nervousness
obviousness
preciousness
restlessness
ridiculousness
seriousness
statelessness

Synonyms and antonyms of tendentiousness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tendentiousness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TENDENTIOUSNESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

倾向性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tendenciosidad
570 millions of speakers

English

tendentiousness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tendentiousness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tendentiousness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тенденциозность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tendenciosidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

tendentiousness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

caractère tendancieux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kecenderungan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tendenziös
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tendentiousness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tendentiousness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tendensi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tendentiousness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒருதலைப்பட்டப் போக்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कंटाळवाणेपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

taraf tutma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tendenziosità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tendencyjność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тенденційність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tendențiozitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

την σκοπιμότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tendentiousness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tendentiousness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tendentiousness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tendentiousness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TENDENTIOUSNESS»

The term «tendentiousness» is normally little used and occupies the 126.587 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TENDENTIOUSNESS» OVER TIME

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

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QUOTES WITH «TENDENTIOUSNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tendentiousness.
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Bjornstjerne Bjornson
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TENDENTIOUSNESS»

Discover the use of tendentiousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tendentiousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Frontiers of Rock Mechanics and Sustainable Development in ...
The average of compressive strength and tensile strength is shown in table I . Singh (1988) proposed elastic strain energy index WCT, the ratio of the area under unloading curve and the area under loading curve, as rock tendentiousness ...
Wang Sijing, Fu Bingjun, Li Zhonkui, 2001
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Prodigious Thrust
... nullify the judgment. Chronologically it stands between The Crooked Lines of God and The Hazards of Holiness. In The Hazards of Holiness we see burned away the tendentiousness and self-righteousness that was the chief determining  ...
William Everson, 1996
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In the Party Spirit: Socialist Realism and Literary Practice ...
Without truthfulness, an will lose life.63 After 2RR was promoted, the emphasis on tendentiousness in literary zhenshi reached a justifiably higher level because the status of revolutionary romanticism was raised. Consequently, the previous ...
Hilary Chung, 1996
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The Sociology of Art (Routledge Revivals)
The question of the admissibility of tendentiousness in art has caused problems for sociology and aesthetics from time immemorial. Not even the point of view taken by Marx and Engels was completely unambiguous and logical. If it was a ...
Arnold Hauser, 2012
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Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic
Or does he mean "tendentiousness" in the sense in which the message must be readable, stated in the work, in conformity with party doctrine, "tendentiousness" in the sense in which the solution is supplied along with the problem?
Régine Robin, 1992
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Microworlds
The tendentiousness of allegorical fiction is usually obvious, that of the realistic kind more or less well concealed. There are no works whatsoever without tendentiousness; if anyone speaks of' such, what he actually has in mind is works  ...
Stanislaw Lem, 2012
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Jesus and the Politics of His Day
Nor, conversely, does a demonstrable mis-statement or distortion in itself constitute evidence for tendentiousness, but only (as has been said) if it is one of a series all pointing in the same direction. These observations apply - if we now go ...
E. Bammel, C. F. D. Moule, 1985
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Jews and Hellenistic Cities in Eretz-Israel: Relations of ...
Guidelines. for. the. Evaluation. of. Historical. Sources. and. their. Tendentiousness. The title of the Hebrew version to this book - Canaan, Philistia, Greece and Israel - is likely to confound and astonish those expecting to read an historical ...
Aryeh Kasher, 1990
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Allusion and Intertext: Dynamics of Appropriation in Roman ...
That is, rather than treating poetic tendentiousness primarily (as in much of chapter 3) as an epistemological hazard facing the would-be literary historian, I will seek to embrace it, even to celebrate it, as something constitutive of allusive writing ...
‎1998
10
After the Avant-garde: Contemporary German and Austrian ...
8: Rapidly. Expanding. Cinema: On. Border. Rescue. and. the. Tendentiousness. of. Interventionist. Art. Randall Halle Nomadic Production and the German- Speaking Territories IN THE 1960s AND 1970s FILMMAKERS MET at a limited ...
Randall Halle, Reinhild Steingr©œver, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TENDENTIOUSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tendentiousness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Uladzimir Matskevich: I never had a gun so I have nothing to snatch …
And when the discussion about tendentiousness and narrowness of the monitoring started, it reminded of the usual Belarusan situation: when discriminated ... «EuroBelarus, Jul 15»
2
An English Lesson for Critics
Similarly: "tendentiousness." What's wrong with "bias?" And why "darkling?" (John Keats uses the word in "Ode to a Nightingale," and it is archaic.) Why not just ... «The Ledger, Jun 15»
3
Democrats Shouldn't Be Afraid to Criticize Israel in 2016
... disingenuous rendering of the Obama-Netanyahu relationship, and overall tendentiousness. But the op-ed, and presumably the memoir from which it's drawn, ... «The New Republic, Jun 15»
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ART And ArtsEmerson's Rob Orchard's 'Appreciation For Ambiguity'
It's only natural. We are being influenced and our challenge is to find a truth for ourselves imbedded somewhere in the layers of information and tendentiousness ... «WBUR, May 15»
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Wikipedia Chews Up and Spits Out Bad Facts, and Its Own Policies …
According to the piece, Wikipedia had concluded a massive arbitration case, intended to settle months of chaos, misconduct, and tendentiousness on ... «Slate Magazine, Feb 15»
6
Bill Moyers Passes the Torch, Are You Ready?
His tendentiousness in choice of targets has earned him the fealty of public-television audiences and the enmity of conservative observers.” Jim Hightower said ... «PR Watch, Jan 15»
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'Visionary Man' at Hudson Mainstage turns into a long sermon
The same tendentiousness affects the plot, which while altering some details hews so tightly to history and to its author's worshipful attitude that it avoids any ... «Los Angeles Times, Aug 14»
8
Reform Conservatism and the Culture War
Leaving aside the tendentiousness of some of his formulations (if there is one absolutist party on abortion in America, for example, it is the Democratic Party …) ... «New York Times, Jul 14»
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Answering Concerns Regarding Reform Conservatism
Leaving aside the tendentiousness of some of these formulations (if there is one absolutist party on abortion in America, for example, it is the Democratic Party, ... «Forbes, Jul 14»
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Nepotism: Discredited UN rights official Richard Falk to be replaced …
Symbolism matters. Elver's Work is Sloppy and Tendentious: Elver's work is infused with dogmatism and tendentiousness, and with sloppy attention to facts. «UN Watch, May 14»

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