blondism

English

Etymology

blond +‎ -ism

Noun

blondism (uncountable)

1. (anthropology) The presence of blond hair and relatively pale skin and eyes in a member of a usually darker race.
   • 1927, John Macmillan Brown, Peoples & problems of the Pacific, volume 2, page 276:

     Blondism artificially produced in Micronesia and Melanesia as in Polynesia indicates a blond element in the last conquering immigration.

   • 1931, Carleton Stevens Coon, Tribes of the Rif, page 348:

     In the beard latent blondism is likely to come out.