partiality

Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.

Noun

  1. Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.
    • 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.
    • Illness confronts the self with partiality, incompleteness, and mortality. - 2008, Hugo Letiche, Making Healthcare Care: Managing via Simple Guiding Principles:

Origin

From Middle English parcialite, parcialtee, parcyalte, partialte, percialite, from Middle French partialité and its etymon Medieval Latin partiālitās. Doublet of partialitas.

Forms

partialities

Synonyms

bias partialness

Antonyms

antibias impartiality impartialness disinterested § Synonyms

Derived

nonpartiality self-partiality