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Favouritism

Definitions: Favouritism

Favouritism

Noun

1. An inclination to favor some person or group.

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "favouritism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)

 

Synonyms: Favouritism

Synonyms: discrimination (n), favoritism (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Favouritism

"Favouritism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Favouritism" is used about 100 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%10032,668

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Favouritism

Language Translations for "favouritism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

favoritizëm (favoritism). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏محسوبية (favoritism), ‏محاباة (bias, favor, favoritism, favour, odds, one sidedness, partiality, prejudice), ‏تحيز (align, favor, favoritism, favour, inequality, odds, partiality, prejudice). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

фаворизация (favoritism), протежиране (favoritism). (various references)

   

Czech

  

protekcionářství (favoritism). (various references)

   

French

  

favoritisme (favoritism, favourable treatment). (various references)

   

German

  

vetternwirtschaft (favoritism, nepotism, partisanship), schätzchenwirtschaft (favoritism), lieblingswirtschaft (favoritism), günstlingswirtschaft (favoritism), bevorzugung (favoritism, preferableness, preference, preferential treatment). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ρουσφετολογία (favoritism, jobbery), προσωποληψία (favoritism). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

משוא פ ים (bias, discrimination, partiality, prejudice), פרוטקצי" (nepotism, protection pill, pull, vitamin p), שיאת פ ים (bias, discrimination, partiality). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kivételezés (favoritism), részrehajlás (Favor, favoritism, favour, partiality, predilection), protekcionizmus (favoritism). (various references)

   

Italian

  

favoritismo (corruption, favoritism). (various references)

   

Manx

  

foayraghys. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

avouritismfay

   

Portuguese

  

favorito (favorite, favoritism, favourite, minion, pet). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

favoritism (favoritism). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

фаворитизм (favoritism). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

favoritizam (favoritism), protekcija (favoritism, preferential treatment), pristrasnost (favoritism, partiality). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

favoritismo (favoritism), gusto (fancy, favoritism, Flavor, flavour, liking, pleasure, relish, savor, savour, sense of taste, taste, tastefulness, treat, zest, zing). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

favoritsystem (favoritism), favorisering (favoring, favoritism, favouring), gunstlingssystem (favoritism), gunstlingskap (favoritism). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

taraf tutma (favoritism, partiality, preoccupancy, prepossession, siding, tendentiousness), iltimas (favoritism, favour, pie, pull), adam kayırma (favoritism). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фаворитизм (favoritism). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự thiên vị (favor, favoritism, favour, unfairness). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Favouritism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-m-o-r-s-t-u-v"

-1 letter: favoritism.

-3 letters: faitours, ovaritis, tiramisu, vasiform, virtuosa, virtuosi.

-4 letters: amorist, atriums, ausform, faitour, fauvism, fauvist, favours, formats, mafiosi, maftirs, sautoir, saviour, sfumato, simitar, tourism, travois, trivium, various, viators, visitor, vomitus.

-5 letters: afrits, amours, aorist, ariosi, aristo, atrium, aurist, autism, famous, favism, favors, favour, forams, format, fortis, forums, fruits, frusta, maftir, miaous, misfit, moirai, motifs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Favouritism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 76 6F 75 72 69 74 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01110110 01101111 01110101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0076 006F 0075 0072 0069 0074 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4067888187847586758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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