Racialist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A believer or advocate of racialism, the ideology of racial nationalism.

    "It was a fundamentally racialist attitude which regarded the native people of empire countries as primitive simpletons only fit to be led by a breed of men of higher intellect and moral fibre."

  2. 2
    a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others wordnet
  3. 3
    A racist. UK, dated

Synonyms

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racistracist

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"It was a fundamentally racialist attitude which regarded the native people of empire countries as primitive simpletons only fit to be led by a breed of men of higher intellect and moral fibre."

Etymology

1910 (noun), 1917 (adjective). racial + -ist, from older racialism (1882).

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