lookism

noun
/ˈlʊkɪz(ə)m/

Etymology

From look + -ism.

  1. inherited from *lōkōn
  2. inherited from lōcian
  3. inherited from loken
  4. formed as lookism — “look + -ism

Definitions

  1. Prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of a person's physical appearance.

    • "We face a world," says Nancy Etcoff, a psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, "where lookism is one of the most pervasive but denied prejudices."
    • This is what I love about R4 - lookism goes out the window. But in comes voicism. Don't even consider a career in radio if you're from Toxteth or the Gorbals.
    • Joseph Connor's job as a cook at a McDonald's in Hamden, Conn., never materialized, and he thinks he knows why — lookism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lookism. 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