Biased vs Stereotype - What's the difference?
biased | stereotype |
(bias)
exhibiting bias; prejudiced
angled at a slant
A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
To print from a stereotype.
(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
* Duke of Argyll (1887)
As verbs the difference between biased and stereotype
is that biased is past tense of bias while stereotype is to make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.As an adjective biased
is exhibiting bias; prejudiced.As a noun stereotype is
a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or .biased
English
Alternative forms
* (UK) biassedVerb
(head)- She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
- The table had a biased edge.
Synonyms
* (having a partial view) partial, prejudiced, tendentiousAnagrams
*stereotype
English
(wikipedia stereotype)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stereotyp)- to stereotype the Bible
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
