Ableism

Quick meaning: Ableism is a noun meaning (uncountable) Discrimination or prejudice against individuals with physical, intellectual, psychiatric, or other disabilities.

Meaning

(uncountable) Discrimination or prejudice against individuals with physical, intellectual, psychiatric, or other disabilities.

More Meanings

1. (countable) An instance of ableism.

Example Sentences

[from late 20th c.]

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• ableisms
• ablism

Synonyms for ableism

Depending on context, synonyms include able-bodyism, able-bodiedism, disablism, ablecentrism, ablism, able-bodism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include able-bodiedism, able-bodism, ablism, ableist, able-bodyism, disablist.

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