Ageism

Definition: Ageism

Ageism

Noun

1. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.

Domain	Definitions
Public Administration	Negative or pejorative image of and attitudes toward an individual simply because he or she is old. Source: European Union. (references)
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Ageism is discrimination against a person or group on the grounds of age.

Although theoretically the word can refer to the discrimination against any age group (e.g. prejudice specifically targeted at fortysomethings), ageism usually comes in one of two forms: discrimination against youth, and discrimination against the elderly.

Many groups have been set up in various countries to combat age discrimination, including:

UK
- Age Concern
USA
- ASFAR
- Gray Panthers
- National Youth Rights Association

Synonym: Ageism

Synonym: agism (n). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I think that's ageism, and that's being prejudiced against people because they're old. (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.)
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Domain	Title
Books	Ageism (Rethinking Ageing Series) (reference) Ageism in the Lesbian Community (reference) Ageism in Work and Environment (In Association with Sterling School of Management) (reference) Aspects of ageism : a discussion paper (reference) Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Ageism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.37% of the time. "Ageism" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.37%	121	29,211
Noun (proper)	1.63%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	123	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "ageism": ageism-awareness.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "ageism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		歧视老年人. (various references)

German		altersdiskriminierung, benachteiligung (disadvantage, discrimination, penalization). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ウロン酸 (ace, acre, age, age shooter, age-group, ageing, agency, agent, aging, agism, ether, someone who is overly concerned with status. Can be used enviously with reference to someone of real accomplishment., undine, uronic acid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		エージズ� (agism). (various references)

Pig Latin		ageismay

Russian		возрастная дискриминация. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predrasuda protiv starijih osoba. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ageism": ageisms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Ageism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agbiamo, ageas, ageis, agies, Agim, agonism, angelism, atenism. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: images.
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-s"
	-1 letter: aegis, agism, amies, games, image, mages, sigma.
	-2 letters: ages, aims, amie, amis, egis, gaes, game, gams, gems, gies, maes, mage, magi, mags, megs, mesa, migs, mise, sage, same, seam, semi, sima.
	-3 letters: age, aim, ais, ami, ems, gae, gam, gas, gem, gie, ism, mae, mag, mas, meg, mig, mis, sae, sag, sea, seg, sei, sim.
	-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, am, as, em, es, is, ma, me, mi, si.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-s"
	+1 letter: ageisms, degamis, enigmas, gamiest, gamines, gisarme, imagers, imagoes, magpies, milages, mirages, misgave, mispage, seaming, sigmate.
	+2 letters: armigers, bigamies, digamies, epigrams, gambiers, gaminess, gammiest, gelsemia, gisarmes, gremials, grimaces, imagines, legalism, magister, magnesia, magnesic, mangiest, meanings, medigaps, megabits, megahits, migrates, mileages, millages, mintages, misagent, misbegan, misgauge, misgrade, mispaged, mispages, misusage, oogamies, primages, ragtimes, reimages, semigala, smearing, steaming, sterigma, veganism.
	+3 letters: almsgiver, ambergris, amidogens, apogamies, armigeros, beshaming, decigrams, demasting, egomanias, emigrants, emigrates, exogamies, fumigates, geminates, geraniums, glamorise, gleamiest, gouramies, gramaries, grimacers, ideograms, imageries, imaginers, isogamete, isogamies, legalisms, ligaments, magazines, magisters, magnesian, magnesias, magnesite, magnesium, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, magnifies, maligners, malingers, mangabies, manginess, marriages, mastering, measuring, megaliths, megillahs, messaging, midranges, migraines, misagents, mischarge, miseating, misgauged, misgauges, misgraded, misgrades, mismanage, misusages, mitigates, mucilages, quagmires, screaming, scrimmage, signalmen, sterigmas, streaming, syngamies, umangites, umpirages, unseaming, veganisms, vigesimal, wigmakers.
	+4 letters: agrimonies, agronomies, alignments, allogamies, almsgivers, amnestying, angiosperm, armigerous, assembling, assignment, autogamies, besmearing, beswarming, centigrams, demagogies, dogmatizes, egomaniacs, endogamies, epiphragms, estimating, evangelism, flamingoes, gallamines, gaminesses, gemmations, geomancies, germaniums, germanizes, germinates, glamorised, glamorises, glamorizes, glutamines, gormandise, gramercies, gramineous, grangerism, graphemics, greenmails, hermitages, hologamies, homogamies, immigrates, isogametes, isogametic, kingmakers, magistrate, magnesites, magnesiums, magnetised, magnetises, magnetisms, magnetites, magnetizes, magnifiers, magnitudes, mahoganies, manganites, margarines, margarites, marginates, marketings, megacities, megascopic, megasporic, menageries, metalising, misaligned, mischarged, mischarges, misdealing, misgrafted, mishearing, misleading, mismanaged, mismanages, misogamies, mispackage, misreading, misseating, monogamies, morganites, multistage, negativism, nightmares, omniranges, omophagies, pegmatites, polygamies, reassuming, reimagines, resampling, restamping, rigmaroles, ringmaster, rosemaling, scampering, scrimmaged, scrimmager, scrimmages, seaborgium, seismogram, signalment, smaragdine, smaragdite, smartening, smattering, stalagmite, stammering, stampeding, steamering, sterigmata, stigmatize, streamings, timesaving, vagotomies, xenogamies.
	+5 letters: abridgments, admeasuring, afterimages, alightments, ambergrises, ambiguities, amusingness, angiosperms, anisogamies, aspergillum, assignments, blaspheming, campaigners, charmingest, cinemagoers, cleistogamy, damascening, dichogamies, dogmatizers, dressmaking, emigrations, empathising, emphasising, emphasizing, ergotamines, evangelisms, gangsterism, garnishment, geminations, gentamicins, glamorizers, glamourizes, glucosamine, glutaminase, gormandised, gormandises, gormandizes, gourmandise, grangerisms, gravimeters, guesstimate, hemangiomas, hemiplegias, homemakings, hypergamies, ignoramuses, imaginaries, impregnants, impregnates, karyogamies, legitimates, ligamentous, logomachies, lovemakings, magisterial, magisterium, magistrates, magnetising, magnetizers, magnificoes, makeweights, malignances, malignities, malingerers, mammalogies, managership, manganesian, manginesses, manifesting, maquillages, marbleising, margravines, marguerites, martingales, mastheading, meaningless, megalopolis, meningiomas, mesopelagic, metagenesis, microimages, microphages, mimeographs, misaltering, misaverring, misbehaving, miscarriage, miscreating, misdiagnose, misguidance, mislabeling, mislearning, mismarriage, mispackaged, mispackages, mispleading, misrelating, misspeaking, misteaching, mistreating, monophagies, mutagenesis, mycophagies, mystagogies, negativisms, noisemaking, pacemakings, permillages, pilgrimages, plasminogen, polygamizes, prestamping, quagmiriest, regimentals, regionalism, remarriages, remastering, remeasuring, rigamaroles, ringmasters, rosemalings, screamingly, scrimmagers, seaborgiums, seismograms, seismograph, semaphoring, semasiology, sexagesimal, signalments, smaragdites, smatterings, spermagonia, stalagmites, stalemating, steelmaking, stigmatized, stigmatizes, thigmotaxes, trigeminals, winemakings.
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