Etymology From able + -ist, by analogy with racist, sexist, etc.
1
Exhibiting or relating to ableism.
The words "lame" and "spaz" are ableist slurs.
Beyoncé’s commitment to musical and visual storytelling did not “excuse her use of ableist language – language that gets used and ignored all too often”, wrote Diviney.2022 August 1, Laura Snapes, quoting Hannah Diviney, “Beyoncé to change Renaissance lyric containing ableist slur”, in The Guardian:
ableist
noun
Etymology From able + -ist, by analogy with racist, sexist, etc.
1
One who exhibits ableism, or prejudice against the disabled.
Like racists and sexists, ableists discriminate against the disabled due only to the fact that they have disabilities and believe in the superior nature and abilities of nondisabled people.2008, Susan Musser, Andrea B. DeMott, David M. Haugen, Rights of the Disabled: