ableist

[ ey-buhl-ist ]

/ ˈeɪ bəl ɪst /

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adjective

relating to, involving, or fostering discrimination against disabled people: ableist language;ableist architecture;implicitly ableist laws.

tending to regard people with a disability as incomplete, diminished, or damaged, and to measure the quality of life with a disability against a nondisabled standard: an ableist culture;ableist assumptions.

noun

A person with ableist assumptions, beliefs, or attitudes: The work of changing how ableists think often falls to people with disabilities.

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Origin of ableist

First recorded in 1980–85; able + -ist

Words nearby ableist

able, able-bodied, able-bodied seaman, abled, ableism, ableist, ableist language, able rating, able seaman, abloom, A.B.L.S.