| Main Entry: | partiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favoritism, fondness |
Synonyms: |
affinity, bias, cup of tea, dish, druthers, flash, inclination, inclining, leaning, liking, love, partisanship, penchant, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency, thing*, type, weakness |
Antonyms: |
disinterest, fairness, impartiality, justice |
| Main Entry: | affinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking or inclination toward something |
Synonyms: |
affection, attraction, closeness, compatibility, cotton, cup of tea, druthers, fondness, good vibrations, leaning, partiality, rapport, same wavelength, simpatico, sympathy, thing*, weakness* |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hatred |
| Main Entry: | attachment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | affection, high regard |
Synonyms: |
affinity, amore, attraction, bond, case, crush, devotion, fidelity, fondness, friendship, hankering*, liking, love, loyalty, partiality, possessiveness, regard, shine*, tenderness, weakness, yen* |
Antonyms: |
alienation, animosity, aversion, dislike, divorce, enmity, estrangement, hate, hatred, opposition |
| Main Entry: | bigotry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intolerance, prejudice |
Synonyms: |
Jim Crowism, bias, discrimination, dogmatism, fanaticism, injustice, narrow-mindedness, partiality, provincialism, racialism, racism, sectarianism, sexism, unfairness |
Antonyms: |
broad-mindedness, fairness, open-mindedness, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | discrimination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bias |
Synonyms: |
bigotry, favoritism, hatred, inequity, injustice, intolerance, partiality, prejudice, unfairness, wrong |
Antonyms: |
fairness, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | fanaticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
abandonment, arbitrariness, bias, bigotry, contumacy, dedication, devotion, dogma, enthusiasm, extremism, faction, frenzy, hatred, illiberality, immoderation, incorrigibility, infatuation, injustice, intolerance, madness, monomania, obsessiveness, obstinacy, partiality, partisanship, passion, prejudice, rage, single-mindedness, stubbornness, superstition, tenacity, transport, unfairness, unreasonableness, unruliness, violence, willfulness, zeal, zealotry |
Antonyms: |
disinterest, impartiality, unenthusiasm |
| Main Entry: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking, dream |
Synonyms: |
big eyes, chimera, conception, daydream, delusion, envisagement, envisioning, eyes for, fabrication, fantasy, figment, fondness, hallucination, hankering, idea, illusion, imagination, imaginativeness, inclination, invention, itch, mirage, nightmare, notion, partiality, penchant, phantasm, picture, pie in the sky, pipe dream, predilection, preference, relish, reverie, romancing, sweet tooth, vision, yearning, yen |
Antonyms: |
certainty, fact, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | favor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approval, good opinion; help |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, account, admiration, aid, approbation, assistance, backing, benediction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, bias, blessing, boon, championship, compliment, consideration, cooperation, courtesy, dispensation, encouragement, esteem, estimation, friendliness, gift, good turn, good will, grace, indulgence, kindness, largess, obligement, okay, partiality, patronage, present, regard, respect, service, support, token |
Antonyms: |
disapproval, disfavor |
| Main Entry: | fetish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obsession |
Synonyms: |
bias, craze*, desire, fixation, golden calf, idée fixe, leaning, luck, mania, partiality, penchant, periapt, predilection, prejudice, preoccupation, prepossession, proclivity, propensity, stimulant, thing* |
| Main Entry: | fondness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liking or taste for |
Synonyms: |
affection, attachment, devotion, fancy, kindness, love, partiality, penchant, predilection, preference, soft spot, susceptibility, tenderness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
dislike, hate, hatred, loathing |