Partiality
[pɑːʃɪ'ælɪtɪ] or ['pɑrʃɪ'æləti]
Definition
(noun.) an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives.
Checker: Olga--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
(n.) A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting.
Typist: Miguel
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Unfairness, injustice, favoritism.[2]. Fondness, predilection, liking, fancy, inclination, leaning, bent.
Checked by Dick
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Preponderance, fondness, relish, love
ANT:Indifference, impartiality, apathy
Typist: Phil
Examples
- Perhaps I speak with some little partiality. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- That's your partiality! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Colonel Forster did own that he had often suspected some partiality, especially on Lydia's side, but nothing to give him any alarm. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It is no partiality of mine, I assure you. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- For, indeed, who is there alive that will not be swayed by his bias and partiality to the place of his birth? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Born in partiality, in order to accomplish its tasks it must achieve a certain detached impartiality. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I do not trust my own partiality. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgment from heaven to chastise her partiality. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Having been frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of former partiality entirely so. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Yet, though smiling within herself at the mistake, she honoured her sister for that blind partiality to Edward which produced it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I have a partiality for everything genuine. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She could not consider her partiality for Edward in so prosperous a state as Marianne had believed it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Had he not given proof on proof of a certain partiality in his feelings? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The mother's eyes are not always deceived in their partiality: she at least can best judge who is the tender, filial-hearted child. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I remember saying to myself, 'Even Emma, with all her partiality for Harriet, will think this a good match. Jane Austen. Emma.
- However, we can not alter our established customs to please the whims of guides; we can not show partialities this late in the day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Whether they were always so free from avarice, partialities, or want, that a bribe, or some other sinister view, could have no place among them? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They have no partialities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Edited by Faye