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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun favoritism has 2 senses
- favoritism(n = noun.cognition) favouritism - an inclination to favor some person or group; Array is a kind of disposition, inclination, tendency
- favoritism(n = noun.act) discrimination, favouritism - unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice; Array is a kind of social control
has particulars: able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ableism, ablism, ageism, agism, cronyism, fatism, fattism, heterosexism, nepotism, racial discrimination, racialism, racism, sexism
CIDE DICTIONARY
favoritism, n. [Cf. F. favoritisme.].
The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. [1913 Webster]
"A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States."
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THESAURUS
favoritism
bent, bias, discrimination, forejudgment, inclination, inequality, interest, involvement, jaundice, jaundiced eye, leaning, nepotism, one-sidedness, parti pris, partialism, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, preferential treatment, preferment, prejudgment, prejudice, prepossession, proclivity, twist, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutralityROGET THESAURUS
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Friendship
N friendship, amity, friendliness, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity, harmony, peace, firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship, cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale, good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness, affection, favoritism, good will, acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of, introduction, friendly, amicable, amical, well-affected, unhostile, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm- hearted, friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with, on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing, on speaking terms, on visiting terms, in one's good graces, in one's good books, acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy, welcome, amicably, with open arms, sans ceremonie, arm in arm, amicitia semper prodest, a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one, friendship is love without either flowers or veil, trulgus amicitias utilitate probat.Wrong
N wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, malum in se, unreasonableness, grievance, shame, injustice, tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning, bias, favor, favoritism, nepotism, party spirit, partisanship, bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice), unlawfulness, robbing Peter to pay Paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, a custom more honored in the breach than the obser, wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair, inequitable, unequitable, unequal, partial, one-sided, injurious, tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified, illegal, iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box, wrongly, it will not do.
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