Partisanship is strong loyalty to one side, at the cost of fairness. Bitter partisanship.
It makes people judge the same act differently depending on who did it. Partisanship is easy to see in others and nearly invisible from inside.
1nounpartisanshipStrong loyalty to one side, at the cost of fairness.
“The partisanship of the coverage was obvious to everybody but its readers.”
partisanship is a quality.
Italian
partigiano — defender of a party
French
partisan
English
partisan
English, today
partisanship
Built from
From partisan + -ship. partisan comes from French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). a doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerrilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian партиза́н, from the same source. The sense of "guerrilla fighter" is from c. 1690. The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century.
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