| Main Entry: |
prejudice |
| Part of Speech: |
noun |
| Definition: |
belief without basis, information; intolerance |
Synonyms: |
ageism,
animosity,
antipathy, apartheid,
aversion, bad opinion,
bias,
bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness,
detriment,
discrimination,
disgust,
dislike, displeasure, disrelish,
enmity, foregone conclusion, illiberality,
injustice, jaundiced eye,
mindset, misjudgment, narrow-mindedness, one-sidedness, partiality,
pique, preconceived notion, preconception, prejudgment, prepossession,
racism,
repugnance,
revulsion, sexism,
slant, spleen, tilt,
twist,
umbrage, unfairness, warp, xenophobia
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| Notes: |
a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
Antonyms: |
fairness, justice, regard, respect, tolerance
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