beardism
nounEtymology From beard + -ism.
1
Rare Prejudice against bearded people.
- Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair.2001, Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair, page 147:
- When the Americans first took me on there was great debate about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; 'Oh hey, that's OK then'. Beardism is rampant.2013, Janet Trewin, Presenting on TV and Radio: An insider's guide:
2
Dated, Nonce word, Rare The period during which one has a beard.
- the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism1846, William Hughes, The three students of Gray's Inn, page 172:
3
Dated, Nonce word, Rare A support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.
- arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism1844, William North, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Anti-Coningsby; or, The new generation grown old:
- Derived terms
- beardist
- Related terms
- pogonophilia, pogonophobia