linguism
Discrimination based on a person's languageDiscrimination based on a person's language.
Meaning
4 senses(uncountable)Discrimination based on a person's language.
(uncountable)Competition among or unequal treatment of languages and their speaker communities.
(uncountable)Conversance with, or predilection for, (foreign) languages
(uncountable)Advocacy of languages on a regional basis
Origin
Back-formation from linguist + -ism.Back-formation from linguist + -ism.
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedlinguicism
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable