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Agism

Definition: Agism

Agism

Noun

1. Discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Agism

DomainDefinitions

Diversity

Discrimination of individuals based on their age, i.e. of the elderly based on the notion that they are incapable of performing certain functions such as driving, or of the young based on the notion that they are immature and therefore incapable of performing certain tasks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Agism

Synonym: ageism (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Agism

"Agism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Agism" is used about 4 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Agism

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

agism

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Agism

Language Translations for "agism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Japanese Kanji 

  

ウロン酸 (ace, acre, age, age shooter, age-group, ageing, ageism, agency, agent, aging, 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 

  

エージズム(ageism). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

agismay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Agism

Derivations

Words beginning with "agism": agisms. (additional references)

Words ending with "agism": imagism, savagism. (additional references)

Words containing "agism": imagisms, savagisms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Agism

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sigma.

Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-s"

-1 letter: aims, amis, gams, magi, mags, migs, sima.

-2 letters: aim, ais, ami, gam, gas, ism, mag, mas, mig, mis, sag, sim.

-3 letters: ag, ai, am, as, is, ma, mi, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-s"
 

+1 letter: ageism, agisms, amigas, amigos, gamins, images, imagos, magics, sigmas, stigma.

 

+2 letters: ageisms, amusing, armings, degamis, enigmas, gambias, gambirs, gambits, gamiest, gamines, gamings, gimbals, gimmals, gisarme, gliomas, imagers, imagism, imagist, imagoes, isogamy, isogram, lingams, magians, magilps, magpies, makings, maligns, margins, mashing, masking, massing, masting, matings, mayings, milages, mirages, misgave, mispage, seaming, shaming, siamang, sigmate, stigmal, stigmas, wigwams.

 

+3 letters: algorism, amassing, angiomas, antismog, armigers, assuming, astigmia, bigamies, bigamist, bigamous, campings, coamings, dampings, diagrams, digamies, digamist, digammas, digamous, epigrams, farmings, framings, galliums, gambiers, gambusia, gaminess, gammiest, gasiform, gelsemia, giantism, ginghams, gisarmes, gouramis, gremials, grimaces, gymnasia, imagines, imagings, imagisms, imagists, isograms, legalism, magister, magnesia, magnesic, mailbags, mailings, mangiest, mappings, markings, marlings, maskings, masoning, mattings, meanings, medigaps, megabits, megahits, migrants, migrates, mileages, millages, mintages, misagent, misalign, misbegan, misgauge, misgrade, misgraft, misogamy, mispaged, mispages, misusage, myalgias, oghamist, oogamies, organism, orgasmic, origamis, paganism, primages, psalming, ragtimes, reimages, sambaing, sampling, savagism, scamming, scamping, semigala, shamming, siamangs, skiagram, slamming, smacking, smarting, smashing, smearing, spamming, stamping, steaming, sterigma, stigmata, swamping, swarming, swingman, syngamic, trigrams, vamosing, veganism.

 

+4 letters: algorisms, almsgiver, ambergris, ambiguous, ambushing, amidogens, amusingly, anglicism, anisogamy, apogamies, armigeros, astigmias, atomising, balsaming, beshaming, bigamists, cambogias, campaigns, campusing, damasking, decigrams, demasting, digamists, disarming, dismaying, dogmatics, dogmatism, dogmatist, egomanias, emigrants, emigrates, exogamies, famishing, flamingos, fumigants, fumigates, gallicism, galvanism, gambusias, geminates, geraniums, giantisms, gigantism, gimcracks, glamorise, gleamiest, gloamings, globalism, gouramies, gramaries, graymails, grimacers, guaiacums, guaiocums, guildsman, gymnasium, gymnastic, hamstring, histogram, ideograms, ignoramus, imageries, imaginers, imagistic, impasting, isogamete, isogamies, isogamous, kilograms, kirigamis, legalisms, ligaments, madrigals, magazines, magicians, magisters, magistral, magnesian, magnesias, magnesite, magnesium, magnetics, magnetise, magnetism, magnifies, magnolias, maligners, malingers, mamaligas, mangabies, manginess, mantlings, marblings, margarins, marigolds, marriages, massaging, mastering, measuring, megaliths, megillahs, messaging, midranges, migraines, migrators, milligals, misacting, misadding, misagents, misaiming, misaligns, mischarge, misdating, miseating, misgauged, misgauges, misgraded, misgrades, misgrafts, mislaying, mismaking, mismanage, mismating, misnaming, mispaging, misrating, missaying, mistaking, mistaught, misusages, mitigates, mridangas, mucilages, mulligans, nystagmic, oghamists, organisms, origanums, paganisms, paradigms, picograms, quagmires, ramblings, ransoming, salaaming, samplings, savagisms, scramming, screaming, scrimmage, shambling, shammying, shamoying, sigmoidal, signalman, signalmen, skiagrams, slaloming, sociogram, sterigmas, stigmatic, streaming, summating, surnaming, syngamies, umangites, umpirages, unamusing, unmasking, unseaming, vamoosing, veganisms, vigesimal, vulgarism, wigmakers.

 

+5 letters: agrimonies, agronomies, agronomist, algorithms, alignments, allogamies, almsgivers, almsgiving, amnestying, amortising, amygdalins, anastigmat, angiograms, angiosperm, anglicisms, antagonism, armigerous, ascogonium, assembling, assignment, astigmatic, audiograms, ausforming, autogamies, besmearing, beswarming, bigamously, cairngorms, centigrams, chamoising, champaigns, coassuming, compassing, demagogies, diaphragms, dismasting, dogmatisms, dogmatists, dogmatizes, doomsaying, egomaniacs, endogamies, epiphragms, estimating, evangelism, flamingoes, fumigators, gallamines, gallicisms, galvanisms, gaminesses, gemmations, geomancies, germaniums, germanizes, germinates, gigantisms, glamorised, glamorises, glamorizes, globalisms, glutamines, gormandise, gradualism, gramercies, gramineous, grangerism, graphemics, greenmails, grimalkins, gymnasiums, gymnastics, hamstrings, hermitages, histograms, hologamies, homogamies, humanising, immigrants, immigrates, isogametes, isogametic, kingmakers, lambasting, lamplights, lawmakings, logarithms, magazinist, magistracy, magistrate, magnesites, magnesiums, magnetised, magnetises, magnetisms, magnetites, magnetizes, magnificos, magnifiers, magnitudes, mahoganies, mainspring, manganites, mapmakings, margarines, margaritas, margarites, marginates, marketings, marshaling, mascaraing, massacring, maximising, megacities, megascopic, megasporic, menageries, metalising, micrograms, migrainous, migrations, milligrams, misaligned, misallying, misatoning, misbiasing, miscalling, miscasting, miscatalog, mischarged, mischarges, misdealing, misdialing, misdrawing, misframing, misgauging, misgrading, misgrafted, mishearing, misleading, mismanaged, mismanages, mismarking, misogamies, misogamist, mispackage, misparsing, misparting, misplacing, misplaying, misprogram, misraising, misreading, misseating, misshaping, misspacing, misstating, mistracing, misvaluing, mitigators, monogamies, monogamist, moralising, morganites, mosaicking, mridangams, multistage, negativism, nightmares, omniranges, omophagies, organicism, organismal, organismic, outshaming, paralogism, pegmatites, pictograms, plagiarism, polygamies, polygamist, postmating, pragmatics, pragmatism, pragmatist, ptarmigans, radiograms, reassuming, reimagines, resampling, restamping, rigmaroles, ringmaster, romanising, rosemaling, salmagundi, scampering, scrambling, scrimmaged, scrimmager, scrimmages, seaborgium, seismogram, shampooing, signalment, simulating, sjamboking, smaragdine, smaragdite, smartening, smashingly, smattering, snowmaking, sociograms, sporangium, stalagmite, stammering, stampeding, steamering, sterigmata, stigmatics, stigmatist, stigmatize, stomaching, streamings, timesaving, unassuming, vaginismus, vagotomies, vulgarisms, wampishing, womanising, xenogamies, zigamorphs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Agism


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 67 69 73 6D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100111 01101001 01110011 01101101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#103 &#105 &#115 &#109

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0067 0069 0073 006D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3573758579

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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