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> tendentially

Is this a word? You don't mean tangentially? I'm having a crisis right now.



https://www.thefreedictionary.com/tendentially

Probably meant tangentially anyway.


"Tangentially" would make less sense. More likely, they meant to convey a present-participle form of "the internet tends to be consolidated."


Is it not? Sorry if I got it wrong, English isn't my first language.

dict.cc (my source of truth for English vocab) says it's a word: https://www.dict.cc/?s=tendentially


It's apparently a word but I'd say it's quite uncommon. I played around with google ngram viewer and had a hard time coming up with a word that is less common. But I finally came up with "astrophotographic".

E: "unsurpassingly" is way down there too


It's common in German, so I figured it wouldn't be uncommon in English. Oh well :)


It's very common in Biblical criticism (transliterated from German).





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