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Sanism vs Nanism - What's the difference?

sanism | nanism |

As nouns the difference between sanism and nanism

is that sanism is discrimination and oppression against people who have, or who are labelled or perceived as having, a mental illness while nanism is unusually small size, as a result of a developmental abnormality.

sanism

English

Noun

(-)
  • Discrimination and oppression against people who have, or who are labelled or perceived as having, a mental illness.

    • References

    * Sanism and the ADA: Thinking About Attitudes, By Michael Perlin (Abstract), by National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, 2003. *Michael L. Perlin, Things Have Changed: Looking at Non-institutional Mental Disability Law Through the Sanism Filter , 46 New York Law School Review 535,539 (2002-2003).

    nanism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology, medicine) Unusually small size, as a result of a developmental abnormality
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    • , passage=In this gene, other mutations can cause a kind of nanism that is lethal during the first weeks of life.}}

    Synonyms

    *dwarfism *microsomia