heightistadj.
/ˈhʌɪtɪst/, U.S. /ˈhaɪdᵻst/ Originally U.S.
Characterized by or advocating heightism; esp. that discriminates against short people.
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1971 News Jrnl. (Mansfield, Ohio) 1 Nov. 5/1 As television and radio psychologist Joyce Brothers says, ‘We have an ingrown prejudice about people's height.’ Society is, in fact, deeply heightist.
1986 E. Hatfield et al. Mirror, Mirror 197 American society is a society with a heightist premise: To be tall is to be good and to be short is to be ‘stigmatized’.
1992 Guardian 4 Nov. ii. 7/4 ‘Heightist’ images abound, all of them founded on such unfeminine images as the gawky wallflower in the fifties dancehall.
2005 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press (Nexis) 11 Aug. b7 Sutherland is the current poster boy for the heightist movement.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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