Favoritism

3 definitions found

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

  Favoritism \Fa"vor*it*ism\, n. [Cf. F. favoritisme.]
     The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one
     person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of
     others having equal claims; partiality.
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           A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United
           States.                                  --A. Hamilton.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  favoritism
       n 1: an inclination to favor some person or group [syn: {favouritism}]
       2: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of
          prejudice [syn: {discrimination}, {favouritism}]

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

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "favoritism":
     bent, bias, discrimination, forejudgment, inclination, inequality,
     interest, involvement, jaundice, jaundiced eye, leaning, nepotism,
     one-sidedness, parti pris, partialism, partiality, partisanism,
     partisanship, preconception, predilection, predisposition,
     preference, preferential treatment, preferment, prejudgment,
     prejudice, prepossession, proclivity, twist, undetachment,
     undispassionateness, unneutrality