Prejudice vs. Bias

Prejudicenoun

(countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.

Prejudicenoun

(countable) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.

Prejudicenoun

(countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.

Prejudicenoun

(obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.

Prejudicenoun

(obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.

Prejudiceverb

(transitive) To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.).

Prejudiceverb

(transitive) To cause prejudice in; to bias the mind of.

Prejudicenoun

Foresight.

Prejudicenoun

An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.

Prejudicenoun

A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.

Prejudicenoun

Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.

Prejudiceverb

To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman.

Prejudiceverb

To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause.

Prejudicenoun

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

Prejudiceverb

disadvantage by prejudice

Prejudiceverb

influence (somebody's) opinion in advance

Prejudice

Prejudice can be an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived (usually unfavourable) evaluation or classification of another person based on that person's perceived political affiliation, sex, gender, beliefs, values, social class, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, complexion, beauty, height, occupation, wealth, education, criminality, sport-team affiliation, music tastes or other personal characteristics.The word can also refer to unfounded or pigeonholed beliefs and it may apply to .

Biasnoun

Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.

Biasnoun

The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.

Biasnoun

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Biasnoun

(electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.

Biasnoun

(statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.

Biasnoun

(sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.

Biasnoun

(fandom slang) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.

Biasverb

(transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

Biasverb

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Biasadjective

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Biasadjective

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Biasadverb

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

Biasnoun

A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line.

Biasnoun

A leaning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent; inclination.

Biasnoun

A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Biasnoun

A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.

Biasadjective

Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

Biasadjective

Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.

Biasadverb

In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.

Biasverb

To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess.

Biasnoun

a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

Biasnoun

a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

Biasverb

influence in an unfair way;

Biasverb

cause to be biased

Biasadjective

slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric;

Bias

Bias is a disproportionate weight in favor of or against an idea or thing, usually in a way that is closed-minded, prejudicial, or unfair. Biases can be innate or learned.