partiality

[US]/ˌpɑːʃiˈæləti/
[UK]/ˌpɑːrʃiˈæləti/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. bias, special favoritism; strong liking.

Phrases & Collocations

show partiality

Example Sentences

a partiality for chocolate

an attack on the partiality of judges.

He had a partiality for chess.

The umpire showed partiality for that team.

he had a distinct partiality for Bath Olivers.

a partiality for liberal-minded friends;

a child with a grown-up partiality for rare and expensive foods.See Synonyms at predilection

But in the rural community, people have a “partiality” in the nonlegal way to solve the dispute.

Real-world Examples

History, right down to the present day, has always suffered from the partiality and mistakes of historians.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

He no longer gazed upon her with affection, or applauded her sentiments with a Lover's partiality.

Source: Monk (Part 2)

'Which I don't blame you for. It is no partiality of mine, I assure you'.

Source: The South and the North (Part 2)

I feel that I have betrayed myself perpetually—so unguarded in speaking of my partiality for the church!

Source: Northanger Abbey (original version)

To show partiality is not good— yet a person will do wrong for a piece of bread.

Source: 20 Proverbs Soundtrack Bible Theater Version - NIV

There were Democrats who looked with partiality upon high protection or with indulgence upon the contraction of the currency.

Source: American history

His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else.

Source: Pride and Prejudice - English Audio Version (Read by Emilia Fox)

For, indeed, who is there alive that will not be swayed by his bias and partiality to the place of his birth?

Source: Gulliver's Travels (Original Version)

However, if you let this kind of partiality cloud your professional judgment, you will fail to gain the respect of your male employees.

Source: ZTJ212 Jane - TEM 8 Listening Audio

Her partiality for this gentleman was not of recent origin; and he had been long withheld only by inferiority of situation from addressing her.

Source: Northanger Abbey (original version)

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