discriminations
- 1Plural of discrimination.
The critic's fine discriminations between competing styles impressed the whole panel.
Trained listeners can make subtle discriminations between pitches that most people hear as identical.
Note
Only some meanings of discrimination can take a plural. Acts of telling things apart count easily: a critic's fine discriminations are separate judgments. Unfair treatment pluralizes less often, usually when distinct kinds are meant, as in the discriminations a law forbids. Refined taste never takes a plural, and the old countable meaning 'a distinguishing mark' is now obsolete.
discriminations is a form of discrimination
discrimination, noun: Unfair treatment of a person or group based on their class or category rather than their individual qualities. Full entry
- Forms
- discriminationdiscriminations plural
- Spelling
- discrimination → discriminations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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