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# partiality

«partiality» in Mova's school dictionary: **Unfair support for one person or side over another: "The…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (partiality, partialities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unfair support for one person or side over another: "The referee showed partiality." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#m1)

2) A special liking for something: "a partiality for chocolate". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school, sport and law, partiality is unfair: judges and referees must be impartial (not favouring anyone). In everyday or old-fashioned speech, "a partiality for" something means you really like it.

### examples

- The referee was accused of partiality towards the home team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#x1)
- A judge must avoid partiality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#x2)
- Grandpa has a partiality for strong cheese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#x3)
- The teacher showed no partiality and treated us all the same. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#x4)
- Her partiality for cats was well known. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#x5)
- Partiality in a contest is unfair to the other players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#x6)
- He gave judgments without partiality, hatred, ignorance, or fear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/#x7)

### note

Usually uncountable. Opposite: impartiality (being fair). Adjective: partial, which has two meanings: "unfair, favouring" and "liking" ("I'm partial to cake"), and also "not complete" ("a partial eclipse"). Do not mix up the meanings.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «partiality» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/partiality/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.