audism

noun
/ˈɔːdɪzəm/UK/ˈɔdɪzəm/US/ˈɑdɪzəm/

Etymology

From audio + -ism, modelled after racism and sexism. Coined by American academic Tom Humphries in 1975.

Definitions

  1. Discrimination against deaf people in favor of hearing people.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for audism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA