favoritize

English

Alternative forms

• favouritise, favoritise, favouritize

Etymology

favorite +‎ -ize

Verb

favoritize (third-person singular simple present favoritizes, present participle favoritizing, simple past and past participle favoritized)

1. (transitive) To make a favorite of; to give preference to.
   • 1999, Alan Simpson, Windows 98 to Go, page 132:

     Go to the channel you want to "favoritize," and then click the Add button.

   • 2013, Caspar Hare, The Limits of Kindness, page 124:

     But when he compares futures in which he has two children, he would rather that his two children, on average, be better off: 'If I am going to have two children in any case, I am not going to favoritize Danny.'

   • 2019, Craig Haen, Nancy Boyd Webb, Creative Arts-Based Group Therapy with Adolescents:

     As this new group of girls entered this space, one set up by dancing young women rather than by a staff member who might favoritize some students over others, cries of seeming appreciation burst out at what their fellow, yet different, group members were doing.

   • 2021, Lucinda Roy, The Freedom Race:

     It's not me Lotter favoritizes, it's you.

2. (intransitive) To play favorites.
   • 1969, Robert H. Bates, A Simulation Study of a Crisis in Southern Africa, page 6:

     Regional opposition to this pattern of "favoritizing," as well as protest over the freezing of wages and prices and other emergency economic measures, precipitated a full-scale crisis in Zambia.

   • 2020, Darlene Krug, Damaged Goods, page 4:

     She favoritizes while she undermines, demeans and denigrates you. The narcissist parent will usually have a golden child.

   • 2021, Demetris Katsikis, Towards Rational Education:

     Besides, rational education does not favoritize but acknowledges individual performance and excellency.

3. (rare, proscribed) To favor; to encourage.
   • 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor, National Defense Education Act, page 602:

     If he can get Federal assistance for French, panish, German, and now Russian, and can get none for Latin, he is going, almost of necessity, to favoritize the languages in which this assistance and equipment and so forth are present.

   • 2005, Jacqueline Nadel, Darwin Muir, Emotional Development: Recent Research Advances, page 441:

     Greenspan likewise emphasizes the active mobilization of emotional states which favoritize tiny new steps of learning and of social exchange ( Greenspan and Weider, 1998;cf. Shanker, 2003).

   • 2007, Marianne Heiberg, Brendan O'Leary, Terror, Insurgency, and the State: Ending Protracted Conflicts, page 22:

     The following passage from his collected works is representative of his views:
     to favoritize the inroads of the maketos is to ferment immorality in our land;