Home › Words › Q › quotaismquotaismquotaism means the practice of taking a certain action to fulfil a quota, regardless of the action's merits (for example, ensuring that 10% of students admitted to a college are from a certain ethnic group, regardless of their qualifications).EtymologyFrom quota + -ism.nounThe practice of taking a certain action to fulfil a quota, regardless of the action's merits (for example, ensuring that 10% of students admitted to a college are from a certain ethnic group, regardless of their qualifications).e.g.“One night of television a week was given over to “Slovak night,” a practice many Czechs found annoying, seeing it merely as quotaism and adding nothing to the quality of the broadcast.” — 2000, Michael Kraus, Allison Stanger, Irreconcilable Differences?, →ISBN, page 172:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.quotity 63% match — A quotum or quota; a number of people or things vs quotaism →tokenism 56% match — A policy of formally complying with efforts to achieve a goal by making small, token gestures; especially to hire a minimal number of ethnically diverse or disadvantaged people. vs quotaism →quotalike 54% match — Resembling or characteristic of a quota. vs quotaism →oughtism 50% match — The habit of doing things only because one feels that one ought to do them. vs quotaism →quangoism 48% match — The beliefs or attitudes of quangos. vs quotaism →routinism 48% match — prevalence of, or domination by, routine vs quotaism →standardism 48% match — The practice of following or imposing standards. vs quotaism →quanticity 48% match — The condition of being quantic vs quotaism →