Home › Words › H › hairismhairismhairism means discrimination based on a person's hair type.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, hairism ranks #41,927 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyHair + -ismnounDiscrimination based on a person's hair type.e.g.“[…] hairism (the privileging of one hair type over another) becomes a norm in American society that most African Americans understand deeply but of which people of other races remain largely unaware.” — 2017, Roxanne Harde, Lydia Kokkola, The Embodied Child, page 89:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).