beardism

Noun

beardism (uncountable)

1. (rare) Prejudice against bearded people.
   • Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair.2001, Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair, page 147
   • When the Americans first took me on there was great debate about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; 'Oh hey, that's OK then'. Beardism is rampant.2013, Janet Trewin, Presenting on TV and Radio: An insider's guide
2. (dated, nonce-word, rare) The period during which one has a beard.
   • the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism1846, William Hughes, The three students of Gray's Inn, page 172
3. (dated, nonce-word, rare) A support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.
   • arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism1844, William North, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Anti-Coningsby; or, The new generation grown old