Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: partiality
IPA transcription: [p,ɑɹʃi'æləti]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: partiality, partisanship
    Meaning: an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives
  • Synonyms: fondness, fancy, partiality
    Meaning: a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey"
Usage examples
  • Dictated by an overweening partiality
  • He seemed to have a partiality for swiping.
  • With my aversion to this cat, however, its partiality for myself seemed to increase.
  • Pierre had but to show a partiality for anything to get just what he liked done always.
  • He said, "I have heard that superior men show no partiality; are they, too, then, partial?
  • Born in partiality, in order to accomplish its tasks it must achieve a certain detached impartiality.
  • Of course, intellect, too, is transient and not eternal, but you know why I cherish a partiality for it.
  • Observing my partiality for domestic pets, she lost no opportunity of procuring those of the most agreeable kind.
  • Thus Mr. Tebrick had a whole family now to occupy him, and, indeed, came to love them with very much of a father's love and partiality.
  • But perhaps Lanyard was prejudiced by his partiality for Americans, a sentiment the outgrowth of the years spent in New York with Bourke.