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sizism

sizism is the alternative form of sizeism.

Meaning of sizeism

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

Origin of sizism

From size + -ism.

Questions about sizism

What is sizism the alternative form of?
Sizism is the alternative form of sizeism.

Words near sizism in the dictionary

  1. siziness
  2. sizing
  3. sizing down
  4. sizing up
  5. sizings
  6. sizism
  7. sizist
  8. sizists
  9. sizofiran
  10. sizy
  11. sizz

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sizism (page history and authors); sizeism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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