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Election vs Partiality - What's the difference?

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Election is a related term of partiality.


As nouns the difference between election and partiality

is that election is election while partiality is preference, bias in favor of, tendency.

election

English

(Election)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A process of choosing a leader, members of parliament, councillors or other representatives by popular vote.
    • The parliamentary elections will be held in March.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past.}}
  • The choice of a leader or representative by popular vote.
    • The election of John Smith was due to his broad appeal.
  • (archaic) Any conscious choice.
  • *, II.20:
    • Whosoever searcheth all the circumstances and embraceth all the consequences thereof hindereth his election .
  • * Francis Bacon
    • To use men with much difference and election is good.
  • (theology) In Calvinism, God's predestination of saints including all of the elect.
  • (obsolete) Those who are elected.
  • * Bible, Rom. xi. 7
    • The election hath obtained it.

    Related terms

    * elect, elective, elector, electoral, electorate

    Derived terms

    * by-election * election theft * electioneer * electioneering * election of remedies * general election * primary election

    Synonyms

    * (theology) chosenness

    See also

    * psephology

    See also

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    partiality

    English

    Noun

    (partialities)
  • Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.
    • The judge's partiality towards the defendant caused him to be replaced, with someone who was apparently more neutral.

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