untouchability
nounEtymology From untouchable + -ity.
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The state or condition of being untouchable.
- Can we make sure that we create a social structure where we remove untouchability?2008 June 15, Anand Giridharadas, “Indian to the Core, and an Oligarch”, in New York Times:
- One study found about a third accpeting they'd earned untouchability by committing sins in past lives, with others blaming unfairness or believing a more self-serving version of the Hindu dream, cleaiming 'they never took a true plunge in status, that they were really Brahmans in disguise.'2021, Will Storr, The Status Game:
- Synonyms
- untouchableness