partisanship

Noun

Meaning

The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

partiality interest politics favor involvement discrimination preference bias inequality bent prejudice inclination injustice intolerance leaning
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Antonyms

justice balance equity neutrality detachment fairness
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Hypernyms

disposition inclination tendency

Hyponyms

bias prejudice tilt localism preconception unfairness

Phrases with the word

blind partisanship excessive partisanship

Examples

Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute. Michael Bloomberg

Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave. Simón Bolívar

My leading idea was the establishment of a journal removed alike from servile partisanship on the one hand and from gagged, mincing neutrality on the other. Horace Greeley

Having established the limits beyond which partisanship ceases to be scientifically legitimate, let me argue the case in favour of legitimate partisanship, both from the point of view of the scientific or scholarly discipline and from that of the cause to which the scholar feels committed. Eric Hobsbawm

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Barack Obama

To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and "rich" and "wicked" are almost synonymous terms. Walter Rauschenbusch

Close letter words and terms

partisanize partisanly partisanry partita partite partition