单词 | classism |
释义 | classismn. The belief that people can be distinguished or characterized, esp. as inferior, on the basis of their social class; discrimination or prejudice against people belonging to a particular social class. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > [noun] > distinction of class classism1842 society > society and the community > social attitudes > [noun] > discrimination or inegalitarianism > by class or social rank class warfare1840 classism1842 casteism1852 1842 S. Bamford Passages Life Radical II. xviii. 89 The same really contemptible feeling of class-ism, the curse of England and Englishmen, and of women also. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xx ‘The Chronicle has won its great fight,’ so it nervily said, ‘against classism in Blaines College.’ 1987 V. Mollenkott Godding iii. 46 New Creation is a just and fair world in which the barriers of racism, classism, and sexism are melted, in which there is no longer any them but only a global us. 2004 T. Wolfe I am Charlotte Simmons iv. 97 Other whining diversoids, who blamed them for racism, sexism, classism,..chauvism, anti-Semitism, fringe-rightism, homophobia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1842 |
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