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partiality

noun
/pɑɹʃiˈælɪti/US/pɑːʃiˈalɪti/UK/pɐːʃiˈɛlɘti/

Etymology

From Middle English parcialite, parcialtee, parcyalte, partialte, percialite, from Middle French partialité and its etymon Medieval Latin partiālitās. Doublet of partialitas.

  1. derived from partiālitās
  2. derived from partialité
  3. inherited from parcialite,parcialtee,parcyalte,partialte,percialite

Definitions

  1. Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.

    • The judge's partiality towards the defendant caused him to be replaced, with someone who was apparently more neutral.

  2. The quality of being partial or incomplete.

    • Illness confronts the self with partiality, incompleteness, and mortality.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonpartiality, self-partiality

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at partiality. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at partiality. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at partiality

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA