What is another word for prejudgments?

Pronunciation: [pɹɪd͡ʒˈʌd͡ʒmənts] (IPA)

Prejudgments, also known as preconceptions or biases, are deeply rooted beliefs that can affect how individuals view and interact with others. These beliefs can stem from a variety of sources, including culture, upbringing, and personal experiences. Synonyms for prejudgments include assumptions, stereotypes, and preconceived notions. These terms all refer to ideas that individuals have about others that may not be based on any real knowledge or evidence. Recognizing and challenging prejudgments is an important step in creating a more inclusive and equitable society where people are valued for who they are rather than judged based on superficial characteristics.

What are the hypernyms for Prejudgments?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for prejudgments?

Antonyms for the word "prejudgments" include open-mindedness, impartiality, objectivity, fairness, and unbiasedness. Whereas prejudgments involve forming opinions or making assumptions prior to gathering sufficient information or evidence, the opposite approach involves being willing to consider new information and viewpoints without bias. An open-minded individual is receptive to diverse perspectives and is willing to adjust their views based on evidence. Impartiality refers to treating all parties fairly and without bias, while objectivity involves an unbiased and factual approach to analyzing information. Fairness and unbiasedness both involve giving equal consideration to all sides, without allowing personal biases or assumptions to interfere.

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Usage examples for Prejudgments

But when he encountered and adduced extraordinary facts, which baffled his power to account for in harmony with his prejudgments and fixed conclusions as to where natural agents and forces cease to act, he could very skillfully keep in abeyance the most distinguishing and significant aspects of such troublesome materials.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
Such thoughts are prejudices, that is, prejudgments, not judgments proper that rest upon a survey of evidence.
"How We Think"
John Dewey
It has many strong forces at its command, of which the Secret Service, and the favorable prejudgments of the Government and of a large part of the public are but part.
"The Subterranean Brotherhood"
Julian Hawthorne

Famous quotes with Prejudgments

  • Our first necessity, if India is to survive and do her appointed work in the world, is that the youth of India should learn to think,—to think on all subjects, to think independently, fruitfully, going to the heart of things, not stopped by their surface, free of prejudgments, shearing sophism and prejudice asunder as with a sharp sword, smiting down obscurantism of all kinds as with the mace of Bhima. (...) When there is destruction, it is the form that perishes, not the spirit—for the world and its ways are forms of one Truth which appears in this material world in ever new bodies.... In India, the chosen land, [that Truth] is preserved; in the soul of India it sleeps expectant on that soul's awakening, the soul of India leonine, luminous, locked in the closed petals of the ancient lotus of love, strength and wisdom, not in her weak, soiled, transient and miserable externals. India alone can build the future of mankind. (...) Ancient or pre-Buddhistic Hinduism sought Him both in the world and outside it; it took its stand on the strength and beauty and joy of the Veda, unlike modern or post-Buddhistic Hinduism which is oppressed with Buddha's sense of universal sorrow and Shankara's sense of universal illusion,—Shankara who was the better able to destroy Buddhism because he was himself half a Buddhist. Ancient Hinduism aimed socially at our fulfilment in God in life, modern Hinduism at the escape from life to God. The more modern ideal is fruitful of a noble and ascetic spirituality, but has a chilling and hostile effect on social soundness and development; social life under its shadow stagnates for want of belief and delight, sraddha and ananda. If we are to make our society perfect and the nation is to live again, then we must revert to the earlier and fuller truth.
    Sri Aurobindo

Related words: pre-judging, prejudging, pre-judgments, prejudgment, pre-judgmental, judgmental, judging

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