partiality

English

Etymology

From Middle French partialité, from Medieval Latin partiālitās.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑɹʃiˈælɪti/, /pɑɹˈʃælɪti/, /pɑɹˈʃæləti/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɑːʃiˈalɪti/, /pɑːˈʃalɪti/, /pɑːˈʃaləti/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /pɐːʃiˈɛlɘti/, /pɐːˈʃɛlɘti/

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Noun

partiality (countable and uncountable, plural partialities)

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.
   • 2008, Hugo Letiche, Making Healthcare Care: Managing via Simple Guiding Principles:

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

Synonyms

• bias, partialness

Antonyms

• antibias, impartiality, impartialness
• See also disinterested § Synonyms

Derived terms

• nonpartiality
• self-partiality

Translations

preference

Arabic: اِنْحِيَاز (inḥiyāz) Bulgarian: пристрастие (bg) n (pristrastie) Dutch: partijdigheid (nl) French: partialité (fr) f Galician: parcialidade (gl) f German: Parteilichkeit f, Befangenheit (de) f Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌸𐌴𐌹 f (wiljahalþei) Hindi: पक्षपात (hi) (pakṣapāt), झुकाव (hi) (jhukāv) Hungarian: elfogultság (hu), részrehajlás (hu), kivételezés (hu) Italian: predilezione (it) f Plautdietsch: Läne n Polish: stronniczość (pl) f, tendencyjność (pl) f Portuguese: parcialidade (pt) f Russian: предвзя́тость (ru) f (predvzjátostʹ) Scottish Gaelic: leth-bhreith f Spanish: parcialidad (es) f Telugu: పక్షపాతము (te) (pakṣapātamu) Yiddish: צדדימדיקייט f (tsdodimdikeyt), פּאַרטיייִשקייט f (parteyishkeyt), אײַנזײַטיקייט f (aynzaytikeyt), משׂא־⁠פּנים (maseponem)

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• patriality