ableism en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- [-zm̩]
- (US) audio
- /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/
Etymology
From able + -ism, modelled on racism, sexism, etc.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Discrimination or prejudice against individuals with physical, intellectual, psychiatric, or other disabilities.
[from late 20th c.]
Ableism is your ability to find reasons to push us aside to keeps us in cages, leave our struggles out of the history pages … pretend we never existed. Ableism is when you say I'm the only disabled friend you've ever had. Ableism is when you say that and still don't understand why we feel invisible. Ableism is when you think I don't have a disability because you can't see it.
2019, Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
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(countable) An instance of ableism.
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.
2023, Dr. Bernadette "bird" Bowen, I have been the bad guy, page 242: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.
2024, Patrick McKelvey, Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation, page 198: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.
2010, Susan E. Cozzens, Jameson Wetmore, Nanotechnology and the Challenges of Equity, Equality and Development, page 101:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ableisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| ablism | alternative | lexicographic |
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Synonyms
anapirophobia · anapirism · ablecentrism · handicapism · able-bodiedism · handicapism · ableism · disablism · able-bodyism · able-bodiedism · able-bodyism · disablism
Translations (39)
nl disablisme (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · sv funkofobi (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · sk ableizmus (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · de Disablismus (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · eo handikapismo (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · es capacitismo (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · pt validismo ableísmo (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · pl ableizm (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · ja 障害者差別 (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · nl validisme (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · cmn 健全主義 /健全主义 (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · fi vammaisten syrjintä (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · pt capacitismo (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · ru эйбли́зм (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · la potestatismus (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · el αρτιμελισμός (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · fr capacitisme (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · el μισαναπηρισμός (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · cs ableismus (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · ar اَلتَّمْيِيزُ ضِدَّ ٱلْمُعَاقِينَ (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · he יְכוֹלתָּנוּת (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · hu fogyatékosellenesség (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · id ableisme (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · ka ეიბლიზმი (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · pl handicapizm (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · el ιμπελισμός (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · sl abilizem (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · it abilismo (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · fy falidisme (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · hu épségizmus (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · el αναπηροφοβία (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · fa توانمندگرایی (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · ca capacitisme (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · eo kapablismo (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · fi ableismi (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · fr validisme (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · cmn 體能歧視 /体能歧视 (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · de Ableismus (discrimination against persons with disabilities) · uk ейблі́зм (discrimination against persons with disabilities)