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Discrimination or prejudice against individuals with physical, intellectual, psychiatric, or other disabilities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: able-bodyism, able-bodiedism, ablecentrism, disablism, handicapism
Antonyms: none provided
An instance of ableism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
discrimination in favor of the able-bodied
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ablism, able-bodiedism, able-bodism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discrimination, favoritism, favouritism
From able + -ism, modelled on racism, sexism, etc.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
اَلتَّمْيِيزُ ضِدَّ ٱلْمُعَاقِينَ
(at-tamyīzu ḍidda l-muʕāqīna)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Catalan:
capacitisme
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Chinese Mandarin:
體能歧視 /体能歧视
(tǐnéng qíshì)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Chinese Mandarin:
健全主義 /健全主义
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Czech:
ableismus
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Dutch:
validisme
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Dutch:
disablisme
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Esperanto:
kapablismo
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Esperanto:
handikapismo
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Finnish:
vammaisten syrjintä
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Finnish:
ableismi
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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French:
validisme
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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French:
capacitisme
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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West-Frisian:
falidisme
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Georgian:
ეიბლიზმი
(eiblizmi)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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German:
Ableismus
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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German:
Disablismus
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Greek:
μισαναπηρισμός
(misanapirismós)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Greek:
αναπηροφοβία
(anapirofovía)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Greek:
αρτιμελισμός
(artimelismós)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Greek:
ιμπελισμός
(impelismós)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Hebrew:
יְכוֹלתָּנוּת
(yekholtanút)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Hungarian:
fogyatékosellenesség
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Hungarian:
épségizmus
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Indonesian:
ableisme
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Italian:
abilismo
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Japanese:
障害者差別
(shōgaisha sabetsu)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Latin:
potestatismus
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Persian:
توانمندگرایی
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Polish:
handicapizm
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Polish:
ableizm
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Portuguese:
capacitismo
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Portuguese:
validismo ableísmo
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Russian:
эйбли́зм
(ejblízm)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Slovak:
ableizmus
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Slovene:
abilizem
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Spanish:
capacitismo
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Swedish:
funkofobi
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
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Ukrainian:
ейблі́зм
(ejblízm)
— discrimination against persons with disabilities
