ageism
noun/ˈeɪd͡ʒ.ɪzm̩/ · /ˈeɪd͡ʒ.ɪz.əm/
Etymology From age + -ism. Coined by American academic Robert N. Butler in 1969.
1
The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.
- But a half-hour into this third Democratic debate, many Democrats had to be wondering: Can he [Joe Biden] go three hours? It’s our own collective ageism.2019 September 13, Timothy Egan, “It Will Take More Than Cheap Shots to Knock Off Biden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Hypernyms
- bias, discrimination, inequity, injustice, prejudice
- Hyponyms
- youthism
- Coordinate terms
- ableism, antireligiousness, antisemitism, bigotry, chauvinism, ethnocentrism, heterosexism, homophobia, islamophobia, racism, sexism, transphobia