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tokenist

UK/ˈtəʊk(ə)nɪst/

tokenist adjective: pertaining to or indicative of tokenism.

Adjective

tokenist (comparative more tokenist, superlative most tokenist)

  1. Pertaining to or indicative of tokenism.
    • The question of whether women could be masons at all was hotly debated, and though many women did join, this was usually in affiliative ‘lodges of adoption’, which were restricted to a tokenist, decorative and spectatorial role.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 368

Forms of tokenist

comparativemore tokenist
superlativemost tokenist

Origin of tokenist

From token + -ist, after tokenism.

Questions about tokenist

What does tokenist mean?
Tokenist means pertaining to or indicative of tokenism.
What part of speech is tokenist?
Tokenist is an adjective.
How do you pronounce tokenist?
Tokenist is pronounced /ˈtəʊk(ə)nɪst/ (UK).

Words near tokenist in the dictionary

  1. tokenises
  2. tokenish
  3. tokenising
  4. tokenism
  5. tokenisms
  6. tokenist
  7. tokenistic
  8. tokenistically
  9. tokenizable
  10. tokenization
  11. tokenizations

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