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| Main Entry: | preconceived notion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea held before an event |
| Synonyms: | assumption, preconception, prejudice, presumption, preconceived idea, prejudgment, something on the brain |
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling*, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
| Antonyms: | proof, reality, truth |
* = 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: | foregone conclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sure success |
| Synonyms: | cinch, matter of course, preconceived notion, sure thing, par for the course, preconceived opinion, sure-fire proposition |
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