partiality — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

1. Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   The judge's partiality towards the defendant caused him to be replaced, with someone who was apparently more neutral.

2. The quality of being partial or incomplete.

   Uso

   • contável
   • incontável

   Exemplos

   Illness confronts the self with partiality, incompleteness, and mortality.

Substantivo

1. a predisposition to like something

   Sinônimos

   fondnessfancy

   Termos mais gerais

   liking

   Exemplos

   he had a fondness for whiskey

   she had dismissed him quite brutally, relegating him to the status of a passing fancy, or less

2. an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives

   Sinônimos

   partisanship

   Antônimos

   impartiality

   Termos mais gerais

   inclinationdispositiontendency