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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FA'VORITISM, n.
1. The act or practice of favoring, or giving a preference to one over another.
2. The disposition to favor, aid and promote the interest of a favorite, or of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims.
It has been suggested that the proceeds of the foreign bills were calculated merely to indulge a spirit of favoritism to the bank of the United States.
Which consideration imposes such a necessity on the crown, as hath, in a great measure, subdued the influence of favoritism.
3. Exercise of power by favorites.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an inclination to favor some person or group [syn: favoritism, favouritism]
2: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice [syn: discrimination, favoritism, favouritism]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1763 1. the showing of special favor ; partiality 2. the state or fact of being a favorite

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Favoritism Fa"vor*it*ism, n. [Cf. F. favoritisme.] The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; partiality. A spirit of favoritism to the Bank of the United States. --A. Hamilton.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Partiality.

Moby Thesaurus

bent, bias, discrimination, forejudgment, inclination, inequality, interest, involvement, jaundice, jaundiced eye, leaning, nepotism, one-sidedness, parti pris, partialism, partiality, partisanism, partisanship, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, preferential treatment, preferment, prejudgment, prejudice, prepossession, proclivity, twist, undetachment, undispassionateness, unneutrality