ableism

English

Alternative forms

• ablism

Etymology

From able +‎ -ism, modelled on racism, sexism, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/, [-zm̩]

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• Rhymes: -eɪbəlɪzəm
• Hyphenation: able‧ism

Noun

ableism (uncountable)

1. Discrimination against persons with disabilities in favor of those without. [from late 20th c.]
   • 2019, Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice‎^[1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

     Ableism is your ability to find reasons to push us aside to keeps us in cages, leave our struggles out of the history pages … pretend we never existed. Ableism is when you say I'm the only disabled friend you've ever had. Ableism is when you say that and still don't understand why we feel invisible. Ableism is when you think I don't have a disability because you can't see it.

Synonyms

• disablism
• able-bodyism
• able-bodiedism
• ablecentrism

Derived terms

• ableist

 

Translations

discrimination against persons with disabilities

• Arabic: اَلتَّمْيِيزُ ضِدَّ ٱلْمُعَاقِينَ (at-tamyīzu ḍidda l-muʕāqīna)
• Catalan: capacitisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 體能歧視／体能歧视 (tǐnéng qíshì)

• Czech: ableismus m
• Dutch: validisme n, disablisme n
• Esperanto: kapablismo, handikapismo
• Finnish: vammaisten syrjintä, ableismi (fi)
• French: validisme (fr) m, capacitisme (fr) m
• German: Ableismus (de) m, Disablismus m
• Greek: μισαναπηρισμός (el) (misanapirismós), αναπηροφοβία (anapirofovía), αρτιμελισμός (artimelismós), ιμπελισμός (impelismós)
• Hebrew: יֶכוֹלתַנוּת m
• Hungarian: fogyatékosellenesség
• Italian: abilismo (it) m
• Japanese: 障害者差別 (しょうがいしゃさべつ, shōgaisha sabetsu)
• Latin: potestatismus m
• Polish: handicapizm (pl) m, ableizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: capacitismo (pt) m, validismo ableísmo m
• Russian: эйбли́зм (ru) (ejblízm)
• Slovak: ableizmus m
• Slovene: abilizem m
• Spanish: capacitismo (es) m
• Swedish: funkofobi (sv) c
• Ukrainian: ейблі́зм m (ejblízm)
• West Frisian: falidisme n

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