Beardism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Prejudice against bearded people. rare, uncountable
"Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair."
- 2 The period during which one has a beard. dated, nonce-word, rare, uncountable
"the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism"
- 3 A support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards. dated, nonce-word, rare, uncountable
"arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism"
Example
More examples"Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair."
Etymology
From beard + -ism.
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