beardism
Etymology
From beard + -ism.
beardism means prejudice against bearded people. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
noun
- Prejudice 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.”
- The period during which one has a beard.“the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism”
- A support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.“arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism”