An inclination to favor some person or group.

synonym: favouritism.

Roget 888: friendship, amity; friendliness etc. adj.; brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony etc. (concord) 714; peace etc. 721.    firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship.    cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale [Fr.], good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.    affection etc. (love) 897; favoritism; good will etc. (benevolence) 906.    acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of; introduction.    ... show more

Roget 923: wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be; malum in se [Lat.]; unreasonableness, grievance; shame.    injustice; tort [Law]; unfairness etc. adj.; iniquity, foul play.    partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit, partisanship; bigotry.    undueness etc. 925; wrongdoing (vice) 945; unlawfulness etc. 964.    robbing Peter to pay Paul etc. v.; the wolf and the lamb; vice etc. 945.    a custom more honored in the breach than the a custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet]. ... show more

Polish: faworytyzm

Unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.

synonyms: discrimination, favouritism.

Polish: dyskryminacja