sanist

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sane +‎ -ist

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sanist (comparative more sanist, superlative most sanist)

  1. Prejudiced in favor of sane people, against people who are mentally ill.
    • 2002, Michael L. Perlin, Mental disability law: civil and criminal, volume 1, page 528:
      Behaviorists, social scientists, and legal scholars must begin to develop research agendas so as to (1) determine and assess the ultimate impact of sanism, (2) better understand how social science data is manipulated to serve sanist ends, []

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