Unfair opinions or judgments about people or things, usually based on insufficient information or negative stereotypes.
From Latin 'praeiudicium,' combining 'prae-' (before) and 'iudicium' (judgment). Literally meaning 'pre-judgment,' it refers to judging something before examining the actual facts.
The word 'prejudice' literally means to judge before—the Romans even had this concept as a legal term—and it's kind of elegant how language captured that the problem with bias is that we've already made up our minds before we look.
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