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Discrimination
01
the practice of treating a person or different categories of people less fairly than others
Examples
The company faced a lawsuit for discrimination against female employees.
Discrimination based on race, gender, or religion is illegal in many countries.
02
the mental process of recognizing and distinguishing differences between two or more stimuli
Examples
Visual discrimination allows children to tell letters apart when learning to read.
The experiment tested participants ' discrimination between different shades of blue.
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