Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Untouchability .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word untouchableness.
Examples
-
She was an orthodox Hindu, yet the "untouchableness" of some of my school fellows did not produce any misgivings in her.
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
-
After a powerful argument against the theory of "untouchableness" and against priestly intolerance, the Gaekwar urges not only upon Hindus, but upon Government the duty of attacking in all earnestness this formidable problem.
Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890
-
The untouchableness that he gathered from the POW glow is gone.
-
On every hand we find that the peculiar difficulty from which they suffer, in addition to others that they share with other classes, is their "untouchableness."
Indian Unrest Valentine Chirol 1890
-
"A nation," he wrote almost 60 years ago, "which excuses its own failures by the sacred untouchableness of its own habits can excuse itself into complete disaster."
NPR Topics: News 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.