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Tendentious vs Tendential - What's the difference?

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Tendential is a related term of tendentious.



As adjectives the difference between tendentious and tendential

is that tendentious is having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one while tendential is of or relating to a tendency.

tendentious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
  • Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
  • As a supporter of the cause, his reports were tendentious in the extreme.

    tendential

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to a tendency.
  • Derived terms

    * tendentially