tokenismn.

Brit.

/ˈtəʊkənɪz(ə)m/,

/ˈtəʊkn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈtoʊkəˌnɪzəm/

Etymology: < token n. Compounds 2 + -ism suffix.

Originally U.S.

The practice or policy of making merely a token effort or granting only minimal concessions, esp. to minority or suppressed groups.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > other

imponderability1799

uninfluentiality1880

dispensability1883

eliminability1895

quotidianism1913

peripherality1935

tokenism1962

kitschiness1971

second-lining1972

1962 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Aug. 11 (heading) The case against tokenism.

1963 Times 28 May 10/1 Tactics such as ‘tokenism’, which have been adopted in some southern states seeking to delay the process of desegregation without opposing the original court order.

1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Oct. 15/1 The French is mere tokenism, too; a few words or sentences of high-school français and joual sandwiched between paragraphs of English.

1976 R. Baxandall in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women viii. 265 Women are not encouraged to become leaders in unions. Tokenism is a standard practice.

1980 Jewish Chron. 12 Sept. 27/3 Philip Rosenthal..waffled on about ‘tokenism’ in his factory, where two workers sit on the board, as if real democracy had been achieved.

Derivatives

tokeˈnistic adj. of the nature of tokenism.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of token importance

statutory1937

token1937

tokenist1975

tokenistic1976

1976 in 6,000 Words.

1977 M. Edelman Polit. Lang. vii. 125 Disorder..invites a response that is only tokenistic or symbolic when the protest is narrow in scope and expressed through conventional tactics.

1983 Daily Tel. 14 Sept. 32/5 That was just a tokenistic load of knackers about gay rights.

Draft additions 1993

ˈtokenist adj. = tokenistic adj. at Derivatives.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of token importance

statutory1937

token1937

tokenist1975

tokenistic1976

1975 Daily Tel. 19 Nov. 14/3 We cannot all be ‘career’ discrimination experts, of course. But..we can all make sure that the subject of discrimination—whether racist, sexist, heightist, weightist, ageist, brainist, beautyist or tokenist—is never absent from our waking thoughts.

1985 Community Librarian Aug. 13 Council felt that co-opting Black library workers/representatives on to divisional committees would be a tokenist gesture.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tokenism
释义	tokenismn. Brit. /ˈtəʊkənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈtəʊkn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈtoʊkəˌnɪzəm/ Etymology: < token n. Compounds 2 + -ism suffix. Originally U.S. The practice or policy of making merely a token effort or granting only minimal concessions, esp. to minority or suppressed groups. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > other imponderability1799 uninfluentiality1880 dispensability1883 eliminability1895 quotidianism1913 peripherality1935 tokenism1962 kitschiness1971 second-lining1972 1962 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Aug. 11 (heading) The case against tokenism. 1963 Times 28 May 10/1 Tactics such as ‘tokenism’, which have been adopted in some southern states seeking to delay the process of desegregation without opposing the original court order. 1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 Oct. 15/1 The French is mere tokenism, too; a few words or sentences of high-school français and joual sandwiched between paragraphs of English. 1976 R. Baxandall in J. Mitchell & A. Oakley Rights & Wrongs of Women viii. 265 Women are not encouraged to become leaders in unions. Tokenism is a standard practice. 1980 Jewish Chron. 12 Sept. 27/3 Philip Rosenthal..waffled on about ‘tokenism’ in his factory, where two workers sit on the board, as if real democracy had been achieved. Derivatives tokeˈnistic adj. of the nature of tokenism. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of token importance statutory1937 token1937 tokenist1975 tokenistic1976 1976 in 6,000 Words. 1977 M. Edelman Polit. Lang. vii. 125 Disorder..invites a response that is only tokenistic or symbolic when the protest is narrow in scope and expressed through conventional tactics. 1983 Daily Tel. 14 Sept. 32/5 That was just a tokenistic load of knackers about gay rights. Draft additions 1993 ˈtokenist adj. = tokenistic adj. at Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of token importance statutory1937 token1937 tokenist1975 tokenistic1976 1975 Daily Tel. 19 Nov. 14/3 We cannot all be ‘career’ discrimination experts, of course. But..we can all make sure that the subject of discrimination—whether racist, sexist, heightist, weightist, ageist, brainist, beautyist or tokenist—is never absent from our waking thoughts. 1985 Community Librarian Aug. 13 Council felt that co-opting Black library workers/representatives on to divisional committees would be a tokenist gesture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1962
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