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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bias |
| Synonyms: | bigotry, favoritism, hatred, inequity, injustice, intolerance, partiality, prejudice, unfairness, wrong |
| Antonyms: | fairness, tolerance |
| Concept: | [Results of comparison] Discrimination. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism; nice perception; perception of difference, appreciation of difference; estimation; nicety, refinement; taste; critique, judgment; tact; discernment (intelligence); acuteness, penetration; nuances., dope, past performances.
-verbs
discriminate, distinguish, severalize; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; split hairs., estimate (measure); know which is which, know what is what, know a hawk from a handsaw [Hamlet]., take into account, take into consideration; give due weight to, allow due weight to; weigh carefully.
-adjectives
discriminating; dioristic, discriminative, distinctive; nice.
-phrases
il y a fagots et fagots; rem acu tetigisti; la critique est aisée et l'art est difficile.
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| Antonyms: | indiscrimination |
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| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | apartheid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | racial segregation |
| Synonyms: | discrimination, racism, separation |
| 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: | care |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | carefulness, attention to detail |
| Synonyms: | alertness, caution, circumspection, concentration, concern, conscientiousness, consideration, diligence, direction, discrimination, effort, enthusiasm, exactness, exertion, fastidiousness, forethought, heed, interest, management, meticulousness, nicety, pains, particularity, precaution, prudence, regard, scrupulousness, solicitude, thought, trouble, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness |
| Antonyms: | carelessness, neglect, negligence, omission, oversight |
| Main Entry: | choice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to select; selection |
| Synonyms: | alternative, appraisal, choosing, cull, cup of tea, decision, determination, discretion, discrimination, distinction, druthers, election, evaluation, extract, favorite, finding, free will, judgment, opportunity, option, pick, preference, rating, say, substitute, variety, verdict, volition, vote, weakness |
| Main Entry: | comparison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrasting; corresponding |
| Synonyms: | allegory, analogizing, analogy, analyzing, association, balancing, bringing together, collating, collation, comparability, connection, contrast, correlation, discrimination, distinguishing, dividing, estimation, example, exemplification, identification, illustration, juxtaposition, likeness, likening, measuring, metaphor, observation, opposition, paralleling, ratio, relating, relation, resemblance, segregation, separation, similarity, testing, weighing |
| Main Entry: | cultivation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | culture, sophistication, education |
| Synonyms: | advancement, aestheticism, breeding, civility, civilization, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, gentility, good taste, grounding, improvement, learning, letters, manners, polish, progress, refined taste, refinement, schooling, taste |
| Notes: | culture is acquired by study and application; cultivation is developed by training and exposure |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, unsophistication |
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