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sizeism

sizeism noun: discrimination based on a person's size (such as height, girth, or weight).

Noun

sizeism (uncountable)

  1. Discrimination based on a person's size (such as height, girth, or weight).
    • Sizeism is hard to avoid on dating apps such as Grindr and Tinder, where users commonly forbid men under 6ft from contacting them. Tinder even made a 2019 April Fool’s joke about launching a “height verification” update that would prevent guys from exaggerating their stature.2019 June 21, Adrienne Matei, “In praise of short men: will the rise of 'short kings' spell the fall of toxic masculinity?”, in The Guardian

Forms of sizeism

alternative formsizism

Origin of sizeism

From size + -ism.

Questions about sizeism

What does sizeism mean?
Sizeism means discrimination based on a person's size (such as height, girth, or weight).
What part of speech is sizeism?
Sizeism is a noun.

Words near sizeism in the dictionary

  1. sizeably
  2. sizecode
  3. sized
  4. sized down
  5. sized up
  6. sizeism
  7. sizeist
  8. sizeists
  9. sizel
  10. sizeless
  11. sizelessness

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