Discrimination
[dɪ,skrɪmɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [dɪ,skrɪmɪ'neʃən]
Definition
(noun.) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.
(noun.) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished.
Editor: Ozzie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
(n.) The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart.
(n.) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
(n.) The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
(n.) That which discriminates; mark of distinction.
Edited by Daisy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Distinction.[2]. Discernment, penetration, acuteness, judgment, sagacity, insight.
Typed by Borg
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Penetration, sagacity, acuteness, nicety, shrewdness, judgment, discernment,insight, distinction
ANT:Dullness, confusedness, indiscriminateness, shortsightedness, hebetude,indiscernment
Typist: Louis
Examples
- But if he makes a scientific investigation of the act, such a discrimination is the first thing he would effect. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But you seem to have the power of discrimination. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The ear is capable of marvelous discrimination and accuracy. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- She was always so gentle and retiring that her emotions were beyond his discrimination. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She once talked to me about her, with an odd mixture of discrimination, indifferenceand antipathy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- During this time Governor Denny assented to a law imposing a tax, in which no discrimination was made in favour of the estates of the Penn family. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The following questions may aid in making such discrimination. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The guests had been selected with a boldness and discrimination in which the initiated recognised the firm hand of Catherine the Great. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Before the invention of the micrometer exactitude was impossible, because the adjustment of the instrume nt depended on the discrimination of the naked eye. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is a lack of discrimination, a lack of criticism. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No one ever had more ample materials for the discrimination of the species, or could have worked on them with more zeal and sagacity. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
Typist: Vern