Discrimination

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of discriminating.
  • n. The ability or power to see or make fine distinctions; discernment.
  • n. Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice: racial discrimination; discrimination against foreigners.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a distinction; discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things.
  • n. The state of being discriminated, distinguished from, or set apart.
  • n. distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry
  • n. The quality of being discriminating, acute discernment, specifically in a learning situation; as to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
  • n. That which discriminates; mark of distinction, a characteristic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
  • n. The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart.
  • n. The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
  • n. The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment.
  • n. That which discriminates; mark of distinction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of distinguishing; the act of observing, making, or marking a difference; distinction: as, the discrimination between right and wrong.
  • n. Specifically The power of distinguishing or discriminating; discriminative judgment; penetration: as, a man of discrimination.
  • n. The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart.
  • n. That which serves to discriminate; a mark of distinction.
  • n. Specifically An invidious distinction.
  • n. Synonyms Discernment, clearness, acuteness, acumen, nicety, insight. See difference and discernment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished
  • n. unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
  • Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    judgment    acuteness    distinction    clearness    penetration    discernment    delicacy    nicety   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tact    discernment    perception    insight    restraint    bias    judgment    distinction    intuition    injustice