classism
(ˈklɑːsɪz(ə)m, -æ-)
Also class-ism.
[f. class n. 2 + -ism.]
Distinction of class.
| 1842 S. Bamford Pass. Life Radical II. xviii. 89 The same really contemptible feeling of class-ism, the curse of England and Englishmen, and of women also. 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed xx, ‘The Chronicle has won its great fight,’ so it nervily said, ‘against classism in Blaines College.’ |