To me it means treating someone or something better than others or in a special way due to personal feelings and or relationships. For example: In a work setting people may get tired of watching the preferential treatment of the bosses kids as they are continuously promoted just because he is their father. Of, relating to, or giving advantage or preference: preferential treatment. Preferential Treatment literally refers to job or employment preference given to someone who is of the right race, ethnicity, or gender as defined in the government's approved list of historically disadvantaged.
Search. Anti-Hispanic sentiment or Hispanophobia (from Latin Hispanus, `Spaniard` and Greek ÏÎ¿Î²Î¯Î± (phobia), `fear`) is a fear, distrust, aversion, dislike, or discrimination against Hispanic people, Hispanic culture and the Spanish language. Its opposite is Hispanophilia.
batophobia (uncountable) The fear of high objects or of high objects falling down. 1912, Edwin Ash, Nerves and the Nervous, Brentano's (1912), page 23: Batophobia, or fear that high things will fall, is not uncommon, and is matched by the perhaps still more common fear that one may fall off high places should one be perched on an altitude, or on the top of a bridge, or walking along cliffs.