Definitions
unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin discrīminātiō, discrīminātiōnem, the action noun to discrīminō, discrīmināre (“distinguish”). Equivalent to discriminate + -ion. In English use from the 17th century.
Used in a sentence
“Have you felt the weight of the considerations which have been presented, in order to show the importance of discrimination on the subject of revealed truth?”
“In place of a discrimination box a jumping apparatus was used, and apparently this required performance less foreign to the natural response repertory of the bird.”
“sexual or racial discrimination”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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