Deportment vs Tendency - What's the difference?
deportment | tendency | Related terms |
bearing; manner of presenting oneself:
:Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
*:...Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact...
conduct; public behavior:
:Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.
apparent level of schooling or training:
:His academic deportment did not match his degree record.
self-discipline:
:The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.
Deportment is a related term of tendency.
As nouns the difference between deportment and tendency
is that deportment is bearing; manner of presenting oneself: while tendency is a likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.deportment
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(en noun)See also
*comportment, behavior, accordtendency
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(tendencies)- Denim has a tendency to fade.
- a militant tendency