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Ageist vs Geist - What's the difference?

ageist | geist |

As nouns the difference between ageist and geist

is that ageist is a person who behaves in an ageist manner while geist is ghost, apparition.

As an adjective ageist

is unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.

ageist

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
    • Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist .
    Even though she had succeeded in the phone interview, when the ageist employer learned that the candidate was only 18 years old, she became hesitant.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
    • He didn’t like to think of himself as an ageist , but he had to admit that he hadn’t considered the needs of some of the more elderly participants.

    Related terms

    * age * ageism

    See also

    * ableist * bigot * bigotry * chauvinism * chauvinist * discrimination * heterosexist * homophobe * homophobic * -ist * racist * sizeist * veganist

    geist

    English

    Noun

  • Ghost, apparition.
  • *1877 , The spiritual magazine:
    • The geists' eat and drink, but only as '''geists''' — not as spirits. ' We have dined,' they say ' sumptuously.' A vapour- ... If dead men tell no tales, their ' geists will tell them, if they find opportunity.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1881 , year_published=2005 , edition=reprint , author=M.T.W. , title=Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Project Gutenberg , isbn= , page= , passage=Koerg was not slow to recognize a geist ; his knees shook, and he dared not utter a word.}}
  • *1996 , Stephen Barker, Excavations and Their Objects :
    • [...] it makes no difference whether these figures were real, corporeal beings or not, since each one, in terms of Freud's (auto) aesthetic, is a spirit, a geist , a complex function of Freud's worldview.
  • Spirit (of a group, age, era etc).
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1974 , year_published=2008 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author=V. Jagannatha Panicker , title=Crucifixion of the Unborn: Underpopulated India , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Sivaji Publications , isbn= , page=54 , passage=The population that today explodes on a stagnant society with a catastrophic echo, is the geist of the times that shock our great nation into a new sense of her grandeur. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1976 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author= , title=Colorado lawyer - Volume 5 , chapter= citation , genre=Law , publisher=Colorado Bar Association , isbn= , page=1640 , passage=However, the geist of the times following the World War was the "normalcy" of Warren G. Harding. }}
  • *1995 , Donald Pizer, The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism :
    • [...] a term badly applied, as the method is neither a historicism (the belief that each era or period has a geist , principle of identity, or a definable sense of destiny) nor new.
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    • Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    References

    * OED, geist