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Ageism

//ˈeɪd͡ʒ.ɪzm̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age. countable, uncountable

    "But a half-hour into this third Democratic debate, many Democrats had to be wondering: Can he [Joe Biden] go three hours? It’s our own collective ageism."

  2. 2
    discrimination on the basis of a person's age wordnet

Etymology

From age + -ism. Coined by American academic Robert N. Butler in 1969.

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