Par`ti*al"i*ty [Cf. F. partialit'e.]
1.
The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.
2.
A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking; as, a partiality for poetry or painting.
Roget.
© Webster 1913.