racism

Main Entry:
racism [rey-siz-uhm]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: prejudice against an ethnic group
Synonyms: apartheid, bias, bigotry, discrimination, illiberality, one-sidedness, partiality, racialism, sectarianism, segregation, unfairness
Main Entry: bigotry
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: intolerance, prejudice
Synonyms: Jim Crowism, bias, discrimination, dogmatism, fanaticism, injustice, narrow-mindedness, partiality, provincialism, racialism, racism, sectarianism, sexism, unfairness
Antonyms: broad-mindedness, fairness, open-mindedness, tolerance
Main Entry: fascism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: political system of dictatorship
Synonyms: Nazism, absolutism, authoritarianism, autocracy, bureaucracy, despotism, one-party system, party government, racism, regimentation, totalitarianism
Antonyms: democracy
Main Entry: prejudice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief without basis, information; intolerance
Synonyms: ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bad opinion, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness, detriment, discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, enmity, foregone conclusion, illiberality, injustice, jaundiced eye, mindset, misjudgment, narrow-mindedness, one-sidedness, partiality, pique, preconceived notion, preconception, prejudgment, prepossession, racism, repugnance, revulsion, sexism, slant, spleen, tilt, twist, umbrage, unfairness, warp, xenophobia
Notes: a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts
Antonyms: fairness, justice, regard, respect, tolerance
Main Entry: racial discrimination
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: prejudice based on race
Synonyms: Anti-Semitism, race discrimination, race prejudice, race snobbery, racialism, racism
Related Words
Main Entry: bigotry
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
arbitrary, bigoted, case, cross, dogged, dogmatic, hard, heady, hidebound, immovable, impersuasible, impervious, impervious to reason, impracticable, incorrigible, inert, infatuated, inflexible, intractable, mulish, not to be moved, obdurate, obstinate, obstinate as a mule, perverse, pervicacious, pig, prejudiced, prepossessed, recalcitrant, refractory, restiff, restive, resty, self, stiff, stiff, sulky, sullen, tenacious, unaffected, unchangeable, uninfluenced, unmoved, unpersuadible, unruly, untractable, unyielding, wayward, willful
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