partiality.

1. Preference for one person, side or interest, especially in a way that compromises fair judgment.

2. A fondness or liking for something.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• partiality toward a party
• apparent partiality

On the page

Apparent partiality required investigation into how the criteria had been applied.

The report traced partiality toward one party through repeated unexplained exceptions.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: responsibility analysis, evidence qualification, ethical distinction, institutional judgment. Disciplines: academic writing, ethics, legal-administrative reasoning. Commonness: moderately common.