偏り (かたより, katayori) Japanese meaning: bias

偏り (かたより, katayori) Japanese meaning: bias | Kotomora

Kanji

偏へん向こう sense 1
偏向 implies a stronger, often deliberate slant (as in media or ideology), while 偏り is a milder, more neutral term for any kind of imbalance.
偏へん見けんN1sense 1
偏見 refers specifically to a prejudiced opinion about people or ideas, whereas 偏り covers any uneven distribution, including purely statistical or physical ones.
バイアス sense 2
バイアス is the loanword used especially in statistics and psychology for systematic skew, closely matching 偏り in technical contexts but sounding more academic.
不ふ公こう平へいN1sense 1
不公平 carries a moral judgment of unfairness, while 偏り simply describes unevenness without necessarily implying injustice.

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傾かたむき
偏り emphasizes an unbalanced bias or skew, whereas 傾き simply describes a leaning or tendency in a direction without necessarily implying imbalance.
歪ゆがみ
偏り means a bias or imbalance in thinking or distribution, while 歪み in its metaphorical sense refers more broadly to an unhealthy twist or flaw in character.
不ふ均きん衡こう
偏り describes a bias or skew toward one side, while 不均衡 more broadly describes an overall lack of balance between two or more things.

均きん等とうN1sense 1
均等 means evenly distributed or equal, the opposite of 偏り, which describes a lean toward one side or extreme.
均きん衡こうN1sense 1
均衡 describes a state of balance or equilibrium, contrasting with 偏り, which describes an imbalance or skew.

Noun form of the verb 偏る (かたよる, 'to be biased, to lean'), from 片 (かた, 'one side') + 寄る (よる, 'to approach, to lean').