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bodyism

noun

Etymology

From body + -ism.

  1. derived from *bʰewdʰ-✻ — “to be awake, observe”
  2. inherited from *bodag✻ — “body, trunk”
  3. inherited from bodiġ
  4. inherited from body
  5. suffixed as bodyism — “body + ism”

Definitions

  1. Prejudice based on the appearance of someone's body

    • Politically, nothing is a more powerful distraction from the female conscience than focusing on bodyism.
    • When do we cease to be a collection of many different beauties and become a bunch of “isms” instead, such as ageism, sexism, racism, bodyism, and on and on? We can make positive attitudes the underpinning of our classrooms.

The neighborhood

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