Discrimination

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discrimination \Dis*crim`i*na"tion\, n. [L. discriminatio the
     contrasting of opposite thoughts.]
     1. The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and
        marking differences.
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              To make an anxious discrimination between the
              miracle absolute and providential.    --Trench.
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     2. The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set
        apart. --Sir J. Reynolds.
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     3. (Railroads) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs
        for substantially the same service.
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              A difference in rates, not based upon any
              corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case
              of discrimination.                    --A. T.
                                                    Hadley.
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     4. The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely
        distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great
        discrimination in the choice of means.
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     5. That which discriminates; mark of distinction.
  
     Syn: Discernment; penetration; clearness; acuteness;
          judgment; distinction. See {Discernment}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  discrimination
       n 1: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of
            prejudice [syn: {favoritism}, {favouritism}]
       2: the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are
          distinguished [syn: {secernment}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  220 Moby Thesaurus words for "discrimination":
     Atticism, Jim Crow, Jim Crow law, acquired taste, acumen,
     adjudgment, adjudication, aestheticism, alteration, analysis,
     anatomization, anti-Semitism, apartheid,
     appreciation of excellence, appropriateness, arbitrament,
     arbitration, astuteness, atomization, bias, bigotry, black power,
     black supremacy, censoriousness, change, chasteness, chastity,
     chauvinism, choice, choiceness, choosiness, circumspection,
     circumspectness, civilized taste, civilizedness, clarity,
     class consciousness, class distinction, class hatred,
     class prejudice, class war, classicalism, classicism, clearness,
     color bar, color line, comeliness, connoisseurship,
     conscientiousness, consideration, cool judgment, correctness,
     criticalness, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness,
     deeming, delicacy, demarcation, desynonymization, differencing,
     differentiation, dignity, directness, discernment, discreetness,
     discretion, discriminatingness, discriminativeness,
     disequalization, disjunction, distinction, distinguishment,
     diversification, division, ease, eclecticism, elegance, elegancy,
     excellence, fascism, fastidiousness, favoritism, felicitousness,
     felicity, finesse, finish, fittingness, flow, flowing periods,
     fluency, good judgment, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility,
     graciosity, graciousness, inclination, individualization,
     individuation, inequality, inequity, insight, interest,
     intolerance, involvement, judgement, judging, judgment, judicature,
     judiciousness, keenness, know-nothingism, leaning, limpidity,
     lucidity, male chauvinist, meticulousness, minority prejudice,
     modification, naturalness, neatness, nepotism, niceness, nicety,
     one-sidedness, parti pris, partiality, particularity,
     particularization, particularness, partisanism, partisanship,
     pellucidity, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, percipience,
     perfectionism, personalization, perspicacity, perspicuity,
     picking and choosing, plainness, policy, polish, polity,
     preciseness, precisianism, precision, preference,
     preferential treatment, prejudice, priggishness, propriety,
     providence, prudence, prudentialism, prudishness, punctilio,
     punctiliousness, purism, puritanism, purity, quality, race hatred,
     race prejudice, race snobbery, racial discrimination, racialism,
     racism, red-baiting, refinement, reflection, reflectiveness,
     restraint, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, seemliness, segregation,
     selectiveness, selectivity, sense, sensitivity, separation,
     severalization, severance, sex discrimination, sexism, shrewdness,
     simplicity, smoothness, social barrier, social discrimination,
     sophistication, sound judgment, soundness of judgment,
     specialization, straightforwardness, strictness, subtlety,
     superpatriotism, taste, tastefulness, terseness, thoughtfulness,
     ultranationalism, unaffectedness, undetachment,
     undispassionateness, unfairness, unneutrality, variation, weighing,
     white power, white supremacy, wit, xenophobia