discrimination
noun [ U ]
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discrimination noun [U] (DIFFERENT TREATMENT)
C1
treating a person or particular group of people differently, especially in a worse way from the way in which you treat other people, because of their skin color, sex, sexuality, etc.:
- AIDS victims often experience social ostracism and discrimination.
- There should be no discrimination on the grounds of color.
- She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.
- She will be remembered as an unrelenting opponent of racial discrimination.
- The law has done little to prevent racial discrimination and inequality.
- affirmative action
- ageism
- ageist
- antiracist
- civil liberties
- emancipation
- emancipatory
- equal opportunity
- equality
- fattist
- gender discrimination
- gender gap
- gender mainstreaming
- human rights
- inequality
- sisterhood
- suffragette
- women's libber
- women's liberation
- women's rights
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
discrimination noun [U] (SEEING A DIFFERENCE)
- an old/a wise head on young shoulders idiom
- be a victory for common sense idiom
- cannily
- canny
- clear-headed
- far-sighted
- gnomic
- neat
- neatly
- no flies on sb idiom
- no-nonsense
- out of the mouths of babes (and sucklings) idiom
- right-minded
- sagacious
- sagaciously
- sage
- sagely
- wisdom
- wise
- wisely
