bigotry

English

Etymology

From French bigoterie, from bigot, equivalent to bigot +‎ -ry.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪɡ.ə.tɹi/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

bigotry (countable and uncountable, plural bigotries)

1. Characteristic qualities of a bigot: (especially religious, anti-religious or racial) intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
   • 1979, Ted Robert Gurr, Violence in America: Protest, Rebellion, Reform, page 131:

     The remarkable resilience of the Ku Klux Klan is a sad reminder of the persistence of racial and religious bigotry in the United States. No terrorist organization can match the Klan's mystique or long history, and few can match its success.

2. (dated) Obstinate prejudice or opinionatedness.

Usage notes

Bigotry is stronger than prejudice or intolerance, though it is often confused with these.

Synonyms

• bigotness

Derived terms

• antibigotry
• niggatry
• reverse bigotry
• soft bigotry of low expectations

 

Related terms

• bigot

• bigoted

Translations

intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance

• Arabic: تعصب
• Azerbaijani: təəssübkeşlik, təəssüb (archaic)
• Catalan: fanatisme (ca) m, intolerància f, falsa beateria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偏見／偏见 (zh) (piānjiàn), 偏執／偏执 (zh) (piānzhí)

• Czech: úzkoprsost f, omezenost f, nesnášenlivost (cs) f
• Dutch: bigotterie (nl) f, kwezelarij f, fanatisme (nl) n
• Finnish: suvaitsematon ennakkoluuloisuus, suvaitsematon dogmaattisuus, suvaitsematon kiihkoilu, fanaattisuus (fi), kiihkoileva suvaitsemattomuus
• French: bigoterie (fr) f
• Georgian: ფანატიზმი (panaṭizmi)
• German: Bigotterie (de) f, Engstirnigkeit f, Borniertheit (de) f, fanatische Verblendung f
• Greek: μισαλλοδοξία (el) f (misallodoxía)
• Korean: 편협한 신앙 (pyeonhyeophan sinang)
• Norwegian: trangsynthet
• Portuguese: preconceito (pt) m, fanatismo (pt) m
• Russian: фанати́зм (ru) m (fanatízm), нетерпи́мость (ru) f (neterpímostʹ), ха́нжество (ru) n (xánžestvo) (sanctimony), мракобе́сие (ru) n (mrakobésije) (obscurantism)
• Scottish Gaelic: dalm-bheachd m
• Serbo-Croatian: bigotnost (sh) f, bigoterija (sh) f

  Cyrillic: мрачњаштво n

  Roman: mračnjaštvo (sh) n

• Spanish: discriminación (es) f
• Swedish: bigotteri (sv) n
• Turkish: bağnazlık (tr)

Further reading

• “bigotry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “bigotry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “bigotry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.