ableist

[ ey-buhl-ist ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

relating to, involving, or fostering discrimination against disabled people: ableist architecture;
ableist language;
ableist architecture;
implicitly ableist laws.
tending to regard people with a disability as incomplete, diminished, or damaged, and to measure the quality of life with a disability against a nondisabled standard: ableist assumptions.
an ableist culture;
ableist assumptions.

A person with ableist assumptions, beliefs, or attitudes:
The work of changing how ableists think often falls to people with disabilities.

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Origin of ableist¹

First recorded in 1980–85; able ( def ) + -ist ( def )

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