Word Meanings - INDISCRIMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson.

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• JEFFERSONIA
  An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves ; twinleaf.
• JEFFERSONIAN
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, Thomas Jefferson or his policy or political doctrines. Lowell.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• DISCRIMINATION
  The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantially the same service. A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley. 4. The quality of being discriminating;
• JEFFERSONITE
  A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
• JEFFERSONIAN SIMPLICITY
  The absence of pomp or display which Jefferson aimed at in his administration as President , eschewing display or ceremony tending to distinguish the President from the people, as in going to the capital on horseback and with no escort,
• IMPARTIALITY
  The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc. Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion. South.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• CONTRADISTINCTION
  Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.
• INDISCRIMINATION
  Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality. Jefferson.