Meanings
plural racialists
- A believer or advocate of racialism, the ideology of racial nationalism.
It was a fundamentally racialist attitude which regarded the native people of empire countries as primitive simpletons only fit to be led by a breed of men of higher intellect and moral fibre.
2023, David Brandon, The General Strike 1926: A New History, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 48 - UKdatedA racist.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
1910 (noun), 1917 (adjective). racial + -ist, from older racialism (1882).
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racialist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/racialist
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