prejudice
Synonyms:
(noun) bias, favor, influence, nonobjectivity, one-sidedness, parti pris, partiality, partisanship, ply, preconception, predilection, predisposition, tendentiousness.
(verb) bias, poison, turn.
Related Words:
(noun) animosity, bigotry, chauvinism, discrimination, distort, enmity, injustice, racism, sexism, skew, slant, xenophobia.
(verb) harm, hinder, impair, predispose, prejudge.
Antonyms:
impartiality, neutrality, objectivity, open-mindedness, unbiasedness.
Synonym Study 1 (Dictionary.com):
Bias and prejudice mean a strong inclination of the mind or a preconceived opinion about something or someone.
A bias may be favorable or unfavorable:
bias in favor of or against an idea.
Prejudice implies a preformed judgment even more unreasoning than bias, and usually implies an unfavorable opinion:
prejudice against people of another religion.
Synonym Study 2 (Merriam-Webster):
Predilection, prepossession, prejudice, bias mean an attitude of mind that predisposes one to favor something.
Predilection implies a strong liking deriving from one's temperament or experience:
a predilection for travel.
Prepossession suggests a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgment of anything counter to it:
a prepossession against technology.
Prejudice usually implies an unfavorable prepossession and connotes a feeling rooted in suspicion, fear, or intolerance:
a mindless prejudice against the unfamiliar.
Bias implies an unreasoned and unfair distortion of judgment in favor of or against a person or thing:
a strong bias toward the plaintiff.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin praejūdicium prejudgment, orig. preliminary or previous judicial inquiry, equivalent to prae- pre- + jūdicium legal proceedings, judging (jūdic-, stem of jūdex judge + -ium -ium). British dictionary: C13: from Old French préjudice, from Latin praejūdicium a preceding judgment, disadvantage, from prae before + jūdicium trial, sentence, from jūdex a judge. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 13th century. Verb: 15th century. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin praejudicium previous judgment, damage, from prae- + judicium judgment — more at judicial. —Merriam-Webster.
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Updated: 4 August 2020 {12:00 PM}
(noun) bias, favor, influence, nonobjectivity, one-sidedness, parti pris, partiality, partisanship, ply, preconception, predilection, predisposition, tendentiousness.
(verb) bias, poison, turn.
Related Words:
(noun) animosity, bigotry, chauvinism, discrimination, distort, enmity, injustice, racism, sexism, skew, slant, xenophobia.
(verb) harm, hinder, impair, predispose, prejudge.
Antonyms:
impartiality, neutrality, objectivity, open-mindedness, unbiasedness.
Synonym Study 1 (Dictionary.com):
Bias and prejudice mean a strong inclination of the mind or a preconceived opinion about something or someone.
A bias may be favorable or unfavorable:
bias in favor of or against an idea.
Prejudice implies a preformed judgment even more unreasoning than bias, and usually implies an unfavorable opinion:
prejudice against people of another religion.
Synonym Study 2 (Merriam-Webster):
Predilection, prepossession, prejudice, bias mean an attitude of mind that predisposes one to favor something.
Predilection implies a strong liking deriving from one's temperament or experience:
a predilection for travel.
Prepossession suggests a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgment of anything counter to it:
a prepossession against technology.
Prejudice usually implies an unfavorable prepossession and connotes a feeling rooted in suspicion, fear, or intolerance:
a mindless prejudice against the unfamiliar.
Bias implies an unreasoned and unfair distortion of judgment in favor of or against a person or thing:
a strong bias toward the plaintiff.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin praejūdicium prejudgment, orig. preliminary or previous judicial inquiry, equivalent to prae- pre- + jūdicium legal proceedings, judging (jūdic-, stem of jūdex judge + -ium -ium). British dictionary: C13: from Old French préjudice, from Latin praejūdicium a preceding judgment, disadvantage, from prae before + jūdicium trial, sentence, from jūdex a judge. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use: Noun: 13th century. Verb: 15th century. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin praejudicium previous judgment, damage, from prae- + judicium judgment — more at judicial. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 4 August 2020 {12:00 PM}