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partiality
US/pɑɹʃiˈælɪti/US/pɑɹˈʃælɪti/US/pɑɹˈʃæləti/UK/pɑːʃiˈalɪti/
noun
What it means
- countableuncountablePreference, bias in favor of, tendency.
The judge's partiality towards the defendant caused him to be replaced, with someone who was apparently more neutral.
- countableuncountableThe 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
In a sentence
The judge's partiality towards the defendant caused him to be replaced, with someone who was apparently more neutral.
Where it comes from
- Medieval Latinpartiālitās
- Middle Frenchpartialité
- Middle Englishparcialite, parcialtee, parcyalte, partialte, percialite
- Englishpartiality
From Middle English parcialite, parcialtee, parcyalte, partialte, percialite, from Middle French partialité and its etymon Medieval Latin partiālitās. Doublet of partialitas.
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