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One-sidedness

One-sided \One`-sid"ed\, a.

  1. Having one side only, or one side prominent.

  2. Hence: Limited to one side; favoring one person or side over another; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided view or statement. [WordNet sense 5] ``Unguarded and one-sided language.''
    --T. Arnold.

    Syn: biased, colored, slanted.

  3. Having one team or party greatly superior; strongly favoring only one side; uneven; imbalanced; unequal; as, a one-sided contest; -- of contests, generally. [WordNet sense 4]

  4. (Bot.) Growing on one side of a stem; as, one-sided flowers.

  5. Using only one side, or having only one side usable; as, one-sided printing; one-sided film; -- used mostly of sheets of material used for printing or imaging.

  6. Performed by only one party or side; -- of actions directly affecting more than one party. Opposite of multilateral. [WordNet sense 2]

    Syn: unilateral (vs. bilateral).

  7. out of proportion in shape.

    Syn: ill-proportioned, lopsided.

  8. Not reversible or capable of having either side out; -- of cloth fabrics or clothing. Opposite of reversible.

    Syn: nonreversible. [WordNet 1.5] -- One`-sid"ed*ly, adv. -- One`-sid"ed*ness, n.

Wiktionary
one-sidedness

n. The state of being one-sided

Usage examples of "one-sidedness".

The latter case is hitherto the most frequent, as, in the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception.

The exclusive pretension made by a part of the truth to be the whole, must and ought to be protested against, and if a reactionary impulse should make the protestors unjust in their turn, this one-sidedness, like the other, may be lamented, but must be tolerated.

National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.

Great schools of art work out the effects which it is their mission to reveal, at the cost of a one-sidedness for which other schools must make amends.

Excess, in human faculties, means usually one-sidedness or want of balance.

To realize this, we must widen our conception of infinity by freeing it from a certain one-sidedness still connected with it.

He had better sense than to lift his hand against me in front of the others, and in any case he could see the one-sidedness of the vote.