Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Partiality

Partiality (?; 277) , noun

[Compare French partialité.]

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