Definition of Partiality

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Partiality

The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.

A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting.

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Partiality Quotations

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Ron Chernow

We can to-day open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
Robert Toombs

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Goldwin Smith

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
Goldwin Smith

Personality is lower than partiality.
Goldwin Smith

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.
Herman Wouk

Partiality Translations

partiality in German is Parteilichkeit, Vorliebe
partiality in Spanish is parcialidad

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