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prejudice

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of prejudice

1 an attitude that always favors one way of feeling or acting especially without considering any other possibilities

  • her lifelong prejudice against doing "dirty" jobs
Synonyms of prejudice

bias, favor, nonobjectivity, one-sidedness, parti pris, partiality, partisanship, ply, tendentiousness
Words Related to prejudice

chauvinism, cronyism, favoritism, nepotism

self-opinionatedness, self-partiality

bent, inclination, leaning, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency

preconception, prejudgment, prepossession
Near Antonyms of prejudice

calm, detachment, dispassion, indifference

aversion, dislike, distaste, hate, scunner
Antonyms of prejudice

impartiality, neutrality, objectivity, open-mindedness, unbiasedness

2 hatred of or discrimination against a person or persons based on their race

  • fought racial prejudice through the use of the court system
Synonyms of prejudice

racialism, racism
Words Related to prejudice

race-baiting

apartheid, jim crow, segregation, separatism

bigotry, intolerance, narrow-mindedness, narrowness
Near Antonyms of prejudice

antidiscrimination, antiracism, antisegregation

assimilationism

Synonym Discussion of prejudice

predilection, prepossession, prejudice, bias mean an attitude of mind that predisposes one to favor something. predilection implies a strong liking deriving from one's temperament or experience.
    • a predilection for travel
prepossession suggests a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgment of anything counter to it.
    • a prepossession against technology
prejudice usually implies an unfavorable prepossession and connotes a feeling rooted in suspicion, fear, or intolerance.
    • a mindless prejudice against the unfamiliar
bias implies an unreasoned and unfair distortion of judgment in favor of or against a person or thing.
    • a strong bias toward the plaintiff

prejudice

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of prejudice

to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge

  • all the bad stories I had heard about the incoming CEO prejudiced me against him even before the first meeting
Synonyms of prejudice

bias, poison, turn
Words Related to prejudice

dispose, incline, predispose

influence, prepossess

convince, persuade, suggest

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