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The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: agism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: discrimination, favoritism, favouritism
From age + -ism. Coined by American academic Robert N. Butler in 1969.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Basque:
adinkeria
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Catalan:
edatisme
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Chinese Mandarin:
年齡歧視 /年龄歧视
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Dutch:
leeftijdsdiscriminatie
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Esperanto:
aĝismo
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Estonian:
vanuseline diskrimineerimine
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Finnish:
ikäsyrjintä
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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French:
âgisme
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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West-Frisian:
leeftydsdiskriminaasje
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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German:
Altersdiskriminierung
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Hebrew:
גִּילָנוּת
(gilanút)
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Hungarian:
korizmus
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Ido:
evismo
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Indonesian:
ageisme
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Italian:
ageismo
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Japanese:
年齢差別
(nenreisabetsu)
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Korean:
연령 차별
(yeollyeong chabyeol)
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Māori:
toihara taipakeke
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Norman:
âgisme
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Polish:
ageizm
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Portuguese:
idadismo
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Portuguese:
etarismo
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Portuguese:
ageísmo
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Romanian:
ageism
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Romanian:
agism
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Russian:
дискримина́ция по во́зрасту
(diskriminácija po vózrastu)
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Russian:
эйджи́зм
(ejdžízm)
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Slovene:
ageizm
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Spanish:
edadismo
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Spanish:
edatismo
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Swedish:
åldersdiskriminering
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Swedish:
ålderism
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Turkish:
yaş ayrımcılığı
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Vietnamese:
phân biệt tuổi tác
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
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Welsh:
oedraniaeth
— the treating of a person or people differently from others based on assumptions or stereotypes relating to their age
