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bigotry - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | bigotry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intolerance, prejudice |
| Synonyms: | bias, discrimination, fanaticism, injustice, partiality, racism, sexism, Jim Crowism, dogmatism, narrow-mindedness, provincialism, racialism, sectarianism, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, tolerance, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness |
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| Main Entry: | bigotry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
self, arbitrary, bigoted, case, cross, dogged, dogmatic, hard, heady, hidebound, immovable, impersuasible, impervious, impervious to reason, impracticable, incorrigible, inert, infatuated, inflexible, intractable, mulish, not to be moved, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate as a mule, perverse, pervicacious, pig, prejudiced, prepossessed, recalcitrant, refractory, restiff, restive, resty, stiff, stiff, sulky, sullen, tenacious, unaffected, unchangeable, uninfluenced, unmoved, unpersuadible, unruly, untractable, unyielding, wayward, willful
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| Main Entry: | fanaticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | bias, bigotry, dedication, devotion, dogma, enthusiasm, faction, frenzy, hatred, infatuation, injustice, intolerance, madness, obstinacy, partiality, passion, prejudice, rage, stubbornness, superstition, tenacity, transport, violence, zeal, abandonment, arbitrariness, contumacy, extremism, illiberality, immoderation, incorrigibility, monomania, obsessiveness, partisanship, single-mindedness, unfairness, unreasonableness, unruliness, willfulness, zealotry |
| Antonyms: | impartiality, disinterest, unenthusiasm |
| Main Entry: | hypocrisy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deceitfulness, pretense |
| Synonyms: | affectation, bigotry, cant, casuistry, deceit, deception, dishonesty, display, double-dealing, duplicity, falsity, fraud, imposture, insincerity, irreverence, lie, lip service*, mockery, quackery, bad faith, dissembling, dissimulation, false profession, glibness, pharisaicalness, pharisaism, phoniness, pietism, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, speciousness, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, righteousness, sincerity, truth, forthrightness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prejudice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief without basis, information; intolerance |
| Synonyms: | ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, detriment, discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure, enmity, foregone conclusion, injustice, partiality, pique, preconceived notion, preconception, racism, repugnance, revulsion, sexism, slant, spleen, tilt, twist, umbrage, warp, bad opinion, contemptuousness, disrelish, illiberality, jaundiced eye, mindset, misjudgment, narrow-mindedness, one-sidedness, prejudgment, prepossession, unfairness, xenophobia |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | racism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prejudice against an ethnic group |
| Synonyms: | apartheid, bias, bigotry, discrimination, partiality, segregation, illiberality, one-sidedness, racialism, sectarianism, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | sexism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sex discrimination |
| Synonyms: | bias, bigotry, chauvinism, inequality, inequity, partiality, prejudice |
| Main Entry: | intolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of willingness to tolerate |
| Synonyms: | bigotry, prejudice, dogmatism, narrow-mindedness |
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in one way; partiality |
| Synonyms: | bent, bigotry, chauvinism, disposition, favoritism, flash, inclination, intolerance, leaning, mind-set*, penchant, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, spin, standpoint, tendency, tilt, turn, viewpoint, head-set, illiberality, mind trip, narrowmindedness, one-sidedness, prepossession, proneness, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, impartiality, justness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | discrimination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bias |
| Synonyms: | bigotry, favoritism, hatred, inequity, injustice, intolerance, partiality, prejudice, wrong, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | narrowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | a mental restriction |
| Synonyms: | bias, bigotry, intolerance, prejudice, insularity |
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