Dictionary

bigotry en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈbɪɡ.ə.tɹi/ (UK, US)

Etymology

From French bigoterie, from bigot. By surface analysis, bigot + -ry.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
   • Strains of anti-Semitism have long festered on the American right. But in the second half of the 20th century, leaders of the Republican Party and the intellectual guardians of the conservative movement attempted to keep bigotry out of the mainstream. 2025 December 23, Franklin Foer, “J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test”, in The Atlantic:
   • For boys like Battuta, white women — never mind fat, Jewish, non-deferential white women — were for fucking and throwing over. What one hates in whites — love of brown sugar — one must also hate when it turns up, inverted, in black. Bigotry is not only a function of power. 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 272:
   • The remarkable resilience of the Ku Klux Klan is a sad reminder of the persistence of racial and religious bigotry in the United States. No terrorist organization can match the Klan's mystique or long history, and few can match its success. 1979, Ted Robert Gurr, Violence in America: Protest, Rebellion, Reform, page 131:
2. (countable, dated, uncountable) Obstinate prejudice or opinionatedness.

Forms

Deriveds

antibigotry · reverse bigotry · niggatry · soft bigotry of low expectations

Relateds

bigot · bigoted

Synonyms

bigotness

Translations (43)

cmn 偏見 /偏见 (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · cmn 偏執 /偏执 (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · sh мрачњаштво (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · sh bigoterija (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · no trangsynthet (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · sh mračnjaštvo (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · fi fanaattisuus (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ca intolerància (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · tr bağnazlık (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · sv bigotteri (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ca falsa beateria (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · cs nesnášenlivost (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · nl bigotterie (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ru нетерпи́мость (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ru ха́нжество (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · fi suvaitsematon dogmaattisuus (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · cs omezenost (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · de Borniertheit (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · de Bigotterie (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · nl kwezelarij (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ru фанати́зм (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ka ფანატიზმი (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · fi suvaitsematon ennakkoluuloisuus (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · fi suvaitsematon kiihkoilu (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · pt preconceito (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ar تعصب (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · de fanatische Verblendung (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · sh bigotnost (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · fi kiihkoileva suvaitsemattomuus (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · el μισαλλοδοξία (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · pt fanatismo (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · nl bekrompenheid (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · gd dalm-bheachd (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · az təəssüb (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ko 편협한 신앙 (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ru мракобе́сие (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · de Engstirnigkeit (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · es discriminación (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · az təəssübkeşlik (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · cs úzkoprsost (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · fr bigoterie (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · ca fanatisme (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance) · nl fanatisme (intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance)