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sanist

sanist adjective: prejudiced in favor of sane people, against people who are mentally ill.

Adjective

sanist (comparative more sanist, superlative most sanist)

  1. Prejudiced in favor of sane people, against people who are mentally ill.
    • Behaviorists, social scientists, and legal scholars must begin to develop research agendas so as to (1) determine and assess the ultimate impact of sanism, (2) better understand how social science data is manipulated to serve sanist ends, […]2002, Michael L. Perlin, Mental disability law: civil and criminal, volume 1, page 528

Forms of sanist

comparativemore sanist
superlativemost sanist

Origin of sanist

From sane + -ist.

Questions about sanist

What does sanist mean?
Sanist means prejudiced in favor of sane people, against people who are mentally ill.
What part of speech is sanist?
Sanist is an adjective.

Words near sanist in the dictionary

  1. sanipractor
  2. sanipractors
  3. Sanis
  4. Sanislău
  5. sanism
  6. sanist
  7. sanit
  8. sanitaria
  9. sanitarian
  10. sanitarianism
  11. sanitarians

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