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antiwhiteism

antiwhiteism noun: synonym of antiwhiteness (“hostility towards white people”).

Noun

antiwhiteism (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of antiwhiteness (“hostility towards white people”).
    • Conversely, the collaborating chiefs, under the leadership of Kaiser Matanzima, express their uneasy agreement with apartheid by raising the thinly veiled spectre of antiwhiteism.1978, Ian Robertson, Phillip Whitten, Race and Politics in South Africa, page 7
    • […] are the root causes of expressions of black antisemitism. This antisemitism is in the first instance an expression of anti-Americanism and antiwhiteism.1998, Alan Helmreich, Paul Marcus, Blacks and Jews on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Black-Jewish Conflict, page 196
    Synonyms:
    antiwhiteness

Synonyms of antiwhiteism

Origin of antiwhiteism

From antiwhite + -ism.

Questions about antiwhiteism

What does antiwhiteism mean?
Antiwhiteism means synonym of antiwhiteness (“hostility towards white people”).
What part of speech is antiwhiteism?
Antiwhiteism is a noun.

Words near antiwhiteism in the dictionary

  1. antiwetting
  2. antiwhale
  3. antiwhaling
  4. antiwhiplash
  5. antiwhite
  6. antiwhiteism
  7. antiwhiteness
  8. antiwhitism
  9. antiwildlife
  10. antiwine
  11. antiwisdom

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