Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
- n. Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
Wiktionary
- n. The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.
- n. The belief that one race is superior to all others.
- n. Prejudice or discrimination based upon race.
WordNet 3.0
- n. discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
- n. the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
Etymologies
- From French racisme. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“September 17th, 2009 6: 40 pm ET racism is a word blacks use to get attention when they think their backs are against the wall or not getting their way. just like charles rangel tried to pull last week. or jimmie carter tried a day or two ago petiful people we have. mike, ,tn”
“But more important is this: We can oversimplify the term racism but we can also oversimplify the term power.”
“The term racism is associated with invidious racial discrimination and the theories of white racial supremacy that supports them.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor May be Wrong About Race, but She is No Racist:
“I've heard the term racism thrown around more in the past week or two than I have since the 1960s or '70s.”
“It is neither, and Barack Obama's victory is a lesson in how the word racism has drifted beyond its core meaning into something more calisthenic than proactive.”
“COOPER: I think too many folks in the media throw around the term racism far too often.”
“NB: The use of the term racism is in its more general sense to include discrimination against identifiable groups of people.”
“The farther away we stay from the murky swamp of the term racism and the anger it incites in all corners and among persons of all colors of this country, the stronger a nation we shall be.”
“The term racism was defined by the OED as "[t] he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race", giving 1936 as the first recorded use.”
“And I think that when we begin to sling around the term racism, people get offended and think, well, the right says it.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘racism’.
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EU - Eurovoc - European Communities
AAMS countries, access to Communi..., access to informa..., accession criteria, accession negotia..., accession to an a..., accession to the ..., accession to the ..., ACP countries, ACP-EC Committee ..., ACP-EC Convention, ACP-EC Council and 1088 more...
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US - war on terror
mirandize, heavily-guarded h..., capture, manhunt, shootout, bloodied, suspect, gunshot wound, citywide lockdown, house-by-house se..., intelligence oppo..., naturalized Ameri... and 463 more...
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
A combined list of
1. EU Buzz - single words
2. EU Buzz - collocations
3. EU Buzz - the 100 most active
collocation constituentsabsorption capacity, absorption rate, acceding country, accession candidate, accession countries, accession country, accession criteria, accession cycle, accession negotia..., accession partner..., accession priorities, accession treaty and 2650 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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EU - Eurovoc - politics
absolute majority, absolute monarchy, abstentionism, access to informa..., acquisition of arms, action brought be..., action for annulment, action to establi..., ad hoc committee, adjournment, adjournment motion, administration and 965 more...
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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POL - issues
emergency services, abortion, accounting reform, addiction, affirmative action, agriculture policy, AIDS, air pollution, air quality, alcohol abuse, drug trafficking, trafficking in hu... and 200 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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things (bad)
things you may fall victim to.
goto things (good)
( randomness, events, situations, nouns )treachery, quagmire, overdose, bombing, suicide, homicide, spam, prison, acute renal failure, bad programming, being pants'd, bleeding out and 37 more...
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-isms
fascism, anarchism, satanism, racism, racialism, nordicism, nazism, socialism, catholicism, national socialism, paganism, hinduism and 67 more...
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ism
isms
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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annscann's list
My words, generally
bavarois, bawbee, bawd, bawdry, libertine, russophobe, rubicund, gossamer, persnickety, claptrap, gesticulate, schadenfreudian and 199 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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nfk9595's Words
magnetohydrodynamics, bovine, epistle, gargantuan, kerfuffle, verbiage, morose, coup de main, elan, achtung, uber, verboten and 497 more...
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