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favouritism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun favouritism has 2 senses
- favouritism(n = noun.cognition) favoritism - an inclination to favor some person or group; Array is a kind of disposition, inclination, tendency
- favouritism(n = noun.act) discrimination, favoritism - 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
OXFORD DICTIONARY
favouritism, n. (US favoritism) the unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
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