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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/, [-zm̩] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-ableism.wav Forms: ableisms [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪbəlɪzəm Etymology: From able + -ism, modelled on racism, sexism, etc. Etymology templates: {{af|en|able|-ism}} able + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} ableism (countable and uncountable, plural ableisms)
  1. Discrimination against persons with disabilities in favor of those without. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Disability, Forms of discrimination Translations (discrimination against persons with disabilities): اَلتَّمْيِيزُ ضِدَّ ٱلْمُعَاقِينَ (at-tamyīzu ḍidda l-muʕāqīna) (Arabic), capacitisme [masculine] (Catalan), 體能歧視 (Chinese Mandarin), 体能歧视 (tǐnéng qíshì) (Chinese Mandarin), ableismus [masculine] (Czech), validisme [neuter] (Dutch), disablisme [neuter] (Dutch), kapablismo (Esperanto), handikapismo (Esperanto), vammaisten syrjintä (Finnish), ableismi (Finnish), validisme [masculine] (French), capacitisme [masculine] (French), Ableismus [masculine] (German), Disablismus [masculine] (German), μισαναπηρισμός (misanapirismós) (Greek), αναπηροφοβία (anapirofovía) (Greek), αρτιμελισμός (artimelismós) (Greek), ιμπελισμός (impelismós) (Greek), יֶכוֹלתַנוּת [masculine] (Hebrew), fogyatékosellenesség (Hungarian), abilismo [masculine] (Italian), 障害者差別 (shōgaisha sabetsu) (alt: しょうがいしゃさべつ) (Japanese), potestatismus [masculine] (Latin), handicapizm [masculine] (Polish), ableizm [masculine] (Polish), capacitismo [masculine] (Portuguese), validismo ableísmo [masculine] (Portuguese), эйбли́зм (ejblízm) (Russian), ableizmus [masculine] (Slovak), abilizem [masculine] (Slovene), capacitismo [masculine] (Spanish), funkofobi [common-gender] (Swedish), ейблі́зм (ejblízm) [masculine] (Ukrainian), falidisme [neuter] (West Frisian)
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  2. (countable) An instance or act of ableism. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-ableism-en-noun-MIv9qhvg
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: disablism, able-bodyism, able-bodiedism, ablecentrism, ablism, ableism, anapirism, anapirophobia, handicapism Hypernyms: prejudice Hyponyms: audism, mentalism Derived forms: ableist

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Alternative forms

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          "text": "Developing guidelines around which ableisms and favoritisms of abilities are ethical , e.g. which form and shape of competitiveness might be ethical and which might not, can be a useful tool for the governance of S&T.",
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          "text": "Ultimately, NTWH mobilieze Stanislavsky not despite the ableisms that Sandahl identifies but on the basis that a critical rehabilitation of those ableisms might create the very conditions of authenticity in which people with disabilities could enter both the theatrical workforce and the braoader affective labor market.",
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    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Esperanto translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Greek translations",
    "Terms with Hebrew translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Slovene translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
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      "word": "mentalism"
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          "ref": "2019, Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Ableism is your ability to find reasons to push us aside to keeps us in cages, leave our struggles out of the history pages … pretend we never existed. Ableism is when you say I'm the only disabled friend you've ever had. Ableism is when you say that and still don't understand why we feel invisible. Ableism is when you think I don't have a disability because you can't see it.",
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          "ref": "2010, Susan E. Cozzens, Jameson Wetmore, Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development, page 101:",
          "text": "Developing guidelines around which ableisms and favoritisms of abilities are ethical , e.g. which form and shape of competitiveness might be ethical and which might not, can be a useful tool for the governance of S&T.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023, Dr. Bernadette \"bird\" Bowen, I have been the bad guy, page 242:",
          "text": "And, as a media and communication PhD, I know this is because the English language itself is a media so biased, with ableisms so deeply built in, that roads (which seem to lead away from ableisms) in fact, lead directly back into them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation, page 198:",
          "text": "Ultimately, NTWH mobilieze Stanislavsky not despite the ableisms that Sandahl identifies but on the basis that a critical rehabilitation of those ableisms might create the very conditions of authenticity in which people with disabilities could enter both the theatrical workforce and the braoader affective labor market.",
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        "(countable) An instance or act of ableism."
      ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-zm̩]"
    },
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      "rhymes": "-eɪbəlɪzəm"
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    {
      "word": "disablism"
    },
    {
      "word": "able-bodyism"
    },
    {
      "word": "able-bodiedism"
    },
    {
      "word": "ablecentrism"
    },
    {
      "word": "ablism"
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    {
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:ableism",
      "word": "anapirism"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:ableism",
      "word": "anapirophobia"
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:ableism",
      "word": "handicapism"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "at-tamyīzu ḍidda l-muʕāqīna",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "اَلتَّمْيِيزُ ضِدَّ ٱلْمُعَاقِينَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capacitisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "體能歧視"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "tǐnéng qíshì",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "体能歧视"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ableismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "validisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "disablisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "kapablismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "handikapismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "vammaisten syrjintä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "ableismi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "validisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capacitisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Ableismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Disablismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "misanapirismós",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "μισαναπηρισμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "anapirofovía",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "αναπηροφοβία"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "artimelismós",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "αρτιμελισμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "impelismós",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "ιμπελισμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "יֶכוֹלתַנוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "fogyatékosellenesség"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abilismo"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しょうがいしゃさべつ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shōgaisha sabetsu",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "障害者差別"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "potestatismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "handicapizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ableizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capacitismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "validismo ableísmo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ejblízm",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "word": "эйбли́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ableizmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abilizem"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capacitismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "funkofobi"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ejblízm",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ейблі́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "discrimination against persons with disabilities",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "falidisme"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "ableism"
  ],
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}

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