Look up: Prejudice

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   Prejudice
   When a person dislikes another for no good reason, or has formed a hostile opinion of someone before even getting to know them.
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   Prejudice
   The holding of preconceived ideas about an individual or group, ideas that are resistant to change even in the face of new information. Prejudice may be either positive or negative.
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   prejudice
   [v] - disadvantage by prejudice 2. [v] - influence (somebody`s) opinion in advance
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   Prejudice
   a rigid and irrational generalisation about an entire category of people
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   Prejudice
   Prej'u·dice noun [ French préjudice , Latin praejudicium ; prae before + judicium judgment. See Prejudicate , Judicial .] 1. Foresight. [ Obsolete] « Naught might hinder his quick prejudize .» Spenser. 2. An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a questio ...
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   Prejudice
   Prej'u·dice transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Prejudiced ; present participle & verbal noun Prejudicing .] [ Confer French préjudicier . See Prejudice , noun ] 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mi ...
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   prejudice
   A preconceived judgment made without adequate evidence and not easily alterable by presentation of contrary evidence. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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   Prejudice
   In its original use, the word `prejudice` refers to prejudgement: i.e. making a decision before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case. The word has commonly been used in certain restricted contexts, particularly in the expression 'racial prejudice'. Initially this referred to making a judgement about a person based on their race, before receiving information relevant to the particular issue on which a judgement was being made; it came, h...
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   Prejudice
   • (n.) 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. &...
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    prejudice
    (from the article `social psychology`) Research has been directed to how social perception is affected by cultural stereotypes (e.g., racial prejudice), by inferences from different verbal ... A great deal of research has been done on factors underlying racial prejudice, but the understanding thus obtained has not had much effect upon t...
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    Prejudice
    A negative attitude directed toward people simply because they are members of a specific social group.
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    prejudice
    prejudice, unsubstantiated prejudgment of an individual or group, favorable or unfavorable in character, tending to action in a consonant direction. The hostility that prejudice can engender and the discrimination to which it may lead on the part of a dominant population toward an ethnic group, gend...
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