discrimination
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
- unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudiceSynonyms: favoritismfavouritismType of social controlKinds sexism, cronyism, nepotism, ageism, racism, fattism, heterosexism, ableism
- the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguishedSynonyms: secernmentType of basic cognitive processKinds differentiation, taste, individualization
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Translations
Noun unfair treatment of a group
- Spanish
- discriminación
- French
- discrimination
- German
- Diskriminierung
- Italian
- discriminazione
- Portuguese
- discriminação
- Turkish
- ayrımcılık
- Russian
- дискримина́ция diskriminácija
- Arabic
- تَمْيِيز tamyīz
- Chinese
- 歧视 qíshì
- Japanese
- 差別 sabetsu
26 more languages
- Dutch
- discriminatie
- Polish
- dyskryminacja
- Swedish
- diskriminering
- Korean
- 차별 chabyeol
- Indonesian
- diskriminasi
- Vietnamese
- phân biệt đối xử
- Hungarian
- diszkrimináció
- Portuguese (PT)
- discriminação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 歧視 qíshì
- Catalan
- discriminació
- Czech
- diskriminace
- Danish
- diskrimination
- Esperanto
- diskriminacio
- Estonian
- diskrimineerimine
- Finnish
- syrjintä
- Georgian
- დისკრიმინაცია disḳriminacia
- Hebrew
- אַפְלָיָה af'layá
- Icelandic
- mismunun
- Latvian
- diskriminācija
- Norwegian
- diskriminering
- Romanian
- discriminare
- Scottish Gaelic
- leth-bhreith
- Serbo-Croatian
- diskriminacija
- Slovak
- diskriminácia
- Slovenian
- diskriminacija
- Yiddish
- דיסקרימינאַציע diskriminatsye
Noun discernment, telling things apart
- Spanish
- discriminación
- French
- discrimination
- German
- Unterscheidung
- Portuguese
- discriminação
- Turkish
- ayırt etme
- Russian
- различе́ние različénije
- Arabic
- تَفْرِيق tafrīq
- Dutch
- discriminatie
- Polish
- rozróżnienie
- Swedish
- diskriminering
7 more languages
- Indonesian
- diskriminasi
- Hungarian
- megkülönböztetés
- Portuguese (PT)
- discriminação
- Czech
- rozlišování
- Georgian
- დისკრიმინაცია disḳriminacia
- Norwegian
- diskriminering
- Romanian
- discriminare
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. discriminatio the contrasting of opposite thoughts.
1. The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential.— Abp. Richard Chenevix Trench
2. The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set apart. Sir Joshua Reynolds
3. Railroads The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service.
A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination.— Arthur T. Hadley
4. The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
5. That which discriminates; mark of distinction.
Synonyms: Discernment; penetration; clearness; acuteness; judgment; distinction. See Discernment.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54