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hairism

hairism noun: discrimination based on a person's hair type.

Noun

hairism (uncountable)

  1. Discrimination based on a person's hair type.
    • […] hairism (the privileging of one hair type over another) becomes a norm in American society that most African Americans understand deeply but of which people of other races remain largely unaware.2017, Roxanne Harde, Lydia Kokkola, The Embodied Child, page 89

Origin of hairism

hair + -ism

Questions about hairism

What does hairism mean?
Hairism means discrimination based on a person's hair type.
What part of speech is hairism?
Hairism is a noun.

Words near hairism in the dictionary

  1. hairily
  2. hairiness
  3. hairinesses
  4. hairing
  5. hairings
  6. hairism
  7. hairist
  8. hairists
  9. hairless
  10. hairlesses
  11. hairlessly

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