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noun
An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: ethics, human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by British animal rights advocate Richard D. Ryder in 1970 from species + -ism.
Across languages
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
