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The crime of liking one thing and having the audacity to say so.
means A favoritism or bias toward one person or thing, or simply a fond liking for something.
from From French 'partialité', rooted in Latin 'pars' meaning 'part' or 'side' — the same root that gives us 'party' and 'partition'. To have a partiality is literally to take a part, to side with one piece of the whole rather than judging it evenly — the word has carried that whiff of unfair favor since it first split off from mere 'liking'.
- legal cousin
- judges recuse themselves to avoid it
- word origin
- from Latin pars, meaning a side
- not bias
- bias hides itself, partiality just admits it
- paradox
- total impartiality is itself a kind of preference