Synonyms for ageism
ˈeɪ dʒɪz əmageism

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1. ageism, agismnoun

   discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people

   Synonyms:
   agism

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1. ageism

   Synonyms:
   Age discrimination, agism

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1. Paulina Porizkova:

   I think we’ve made enormous strides in accepting all different sorts of beauty; I think size and color and all of these things that used to be so uniform now have broadened to a pretty spectacular [degree], but age, ageism, that’s kind of like the last frontier.

2. Laurie McCann:

   It could be that ageism versus other forms of discrimination is not taken as seriously or viewed as wrong as other types of discrimination, so we don't attack it with the same intensity.

3. Perry Brass:

   Ageism is the racism of the gay world. We really believe that age—and all of our fears that it carries—will “rub off” on us, the way that racists once believed blackness would.

4. Bernie Sanders:

   We are fighting racism. We’re fighting sexism. We’re fighting homophobia. I think we should also be fighting ageism. Trust people, look at people, and say, ‘You know, this person is competent. This person’s incompetent.’ There are a lot of 40-year-olds out there who ain’t particularly competent.