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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
favoritism
    n 1: an inclination to favor some person or group [syn:
         favoritism, favouritism]
    2: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of
       prejudice [syn: discrimination, favoritism,
       favouritism]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Favoritism \Fa"vor*it*ism\, 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.                                  --A. Hamilton.
   [1913 Webster]
Thesaurus Results for Favoritism:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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, unneutrality
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