Meanings
- rareuncountablePrejudice against bearded people.
Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair.
2001, Allan Peterkin, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair, page 1471 more example
When the Americans first took me on there was great debate about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; 'Oh hey, that's OK then'. Beardism is rampant.
2013, Janet Trewin, Presenting on TV and Radio: An insider's guide - datednonce wordrareuncountableThe period during which one has a beard.
the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism
1846, William Hughes, The three students of Gray's Inn, page 172 - datednonce wordrareuncountableA support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.
arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism
1844, William North, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield), Anti-Coningsby; or, The new generation grown old
Origin
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