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unracism

unracism noun: absence or lack of racism.

Noun

unracism (uncountable)

  1. Absence or lack of racism
    • And he was able, despite his antiracism—despite what I am inclined to call his complete unracism, since racism was never a temptation he had to resist—to find it natural, when he was a delegate from Ghana to the UN to seek solidarity in Harlem, where he went to church most Sundays and made many...1993, Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House
    • And, more important, he sees his own unracism as a critical component of his own.2009, Mary F. Corey, The World Through a Monocle

Origin of unracism

From un- + racism.

Questions about unracism

What does unracism mean?
Unracism means absence or lack of racism.
What part of speech is unracism?
Unracism is a noun.

Words near unracism in the dictionary

  1. unraced
  2. unracialize
  3. unracialized
  4. unracializes
  5. unracializing
  6. unracism
  7. unracist
  8. unrack
  9. unracked
  10. unracking
  11. unracks

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