English Explanatory Dictionary

ethnophaulism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An ethnic or racial slur, typically caricaturing some identifiable (often physical) feature of the group being derided.
  2. The use of such slurs.

Word forms

ethnophaulism ethnophaulisms

Etymology

Coined by Polish psychologist Abraham Aaron Roback in 1944 from ethno- + Ancient Greek φαύλισμα (phaúlisma, “disparagement, contempt”), which is from φαῦλος (phaûlos, “bad, unjust”).

Related words

ethnophaulic
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