discrimination

See also: discriminnâtion

English

Etymology

From Latin discrīminātiō, discrīminātiōnem, the action noun to discrīminō, discrīmināre (“distinguish”).

Learned Latinism in English use from the 17th century. Morphologically discriminate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪskɹɪmɪˈneɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

discrimination (countable and uncountable, plural discriminations)

1. Discernment, the act of discriminating, discerning, distinguishing, noting or perceiving differences between things, with intent to understand rightly and make correct decisions.
2. (sometimes discrimination against) Distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry.

   Hyponyms: heterosexism, ageism, ableism, xenophobia, racism, sexism, classism, religionism, homophobia

   sexual or racial discrimination

   reverse discrimination

3. The quality of being discriminating, acute discernment, specifically in a learning situation; as to show great discrimination in the choice of means.
4. That which discriminates; mark of distinction, a characteristic.

Derived terms

Terms derived from discrimination

• nondiscrimination, non-discrimination
• price discrimination
• reverse discrimination
• self discrimination

Translations

the act of making a distinction, noting differences between things

• Arabic: تَفْرِيق‎ m (tafrīq)
• Bulgarian: разграниче́ние (bg) n (razgraničénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 區別 (zh), 区别 (zh) (qūbié)

• Czech: rozlišování n
• Dutch: discriminatie (nl) f
• French: discrimination (fr) f
• Galician: discriminación (gl) f
• German: Diskriminierung (de) f, Unterscheidung (de) f
• Japanese: 区別 (ja) (くべつ, kubetsu)

• Korean: 구별 (ko) (gubyeol)
• Malayalam: വിവേചനം (ml) (vivēcanaṃ)
• Manx: foayr m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diskriminering m or f

  Nynorsk: diskriminering f

• Occitan: discriminacion
• Portuguese: discriminação (pt) f
• Romanian: discriminare (ro) f, diferențiere (ro)
• Russian: распознава́ние (ru) n (raspoznavánije), разграниче́ние (ru) n (razgraničénije)
• Spanish: discriminación (es) f
• Swedish: diskriminering (sv) c
• Turkish: ayrımcılık (tr)

distinct treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage

• Albanian: diskriminim (sq) m
• Arabic: تَمْيِيز‎ m (tamyīz)
• Armenian: խտրականություն (hy) (xtrakanutʿyun)
• Azerbaijani: ayrıseçkilik, diskriminasiya
• Belarusian: дыскрыміна́цыя f (dyskryminácyja)
• Bengali: বৈষম্য (boiśômjô)
• Bulgarian: дискримина́ция (bg) f (diskriminácija)
• Burmese: ပိုင်းခြားခြင်း (puing:hkra:hkrang:), ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံခြင်း (hkwai:hkra:hcakhcamhkrang:)
• Catalan: discriminació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 歧視, 歧视 (kei⁴ si⁶)

  Mandarin: 歧視 (zh), 歧视 (zh) (qíshì)

  Min Nan: 歧視 (zh-min-nan), 歧视 (kî-sī / khî-sī)

• Czech: diskriminace (cs) f
• Danish: diskrimination (da) c
• Dutch: discriminatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: diskriminacio
• Estonian: diskrimineerimine
• Finnish: syrjintä (fi)
• French: discrimination (fr) f
• Galician: discriminación (gl) f
• Georgian: დისკრიმინაცია (disḳriminacia)
• German: Diskriminierung (de) f, Schlechterstellung f
• Hebrew: אַפְלָיָה‎ (he) f (af'layá)
• Hindi: भेदभाव (hi) m (bhedbhāv), विभेदन (hi) m (vibhedan)
• Hungarian: diszkrimináció (hu), megkülönböztetés (hu), kirekesztés (hu), hátrányos megkülönböztetés (hu)
• Icelandic: mismunun (is) f
• Indonesian: diskriminasi (id)
• Italian: discriminazione (it) f
• Japanese: 差別 (ja) (さべつ, sabetsu), 冷遇 (れいぐう, reigū)
• Kazakh: кемсітушілік (kemsitwşilik)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 차별 (ko) (chabyeol)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دووچاوەکی‎ (dûçawekî)

  Southern Kurdish: دِچەوەکی‎ (diçewekî), دِبەێنەکی‎ (dibeÿnekî)

• Kyrgyz: дискриминация (ky) (disqriminatsiya)
• Lao: ^{(please verify)} ການຈຳແນກ (kān cham nǣk)
• Latvian: diskriminācija f
• Lithuanian: diskriminacija (lt) f
• Macedonian: дискриминација f (diskriminacija)
• Malay: diskriminasi
• Malayalam: വിവേചനം (ml) (vivēcanaṃ)
• Maori: toihara
• Mongolian: ялгаварлан гадуурхалт (yalgavarlan gaduurkhalt)
• Ngazidja Comorian: uɓanguzi 11
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diskriminering m or f, rasediskriminering m or f (racial)

  Nynorsk: diskriminering f, rasediskriminering f (racial)

• Occitan: discriminacion
• Pashto: تبعيض‎ (ps) m (tab'íz)
• Persian: تبعیض‎ (fa) (tab'iz)
• Polish: dyskryminacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: discriminação (pt) f
• Romanian: discriminare (ro) f
• Russian: дискримина́ция (ru) f (diskriminácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: leth-bhreith f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дискриминација f

  Roman: diskriminacija (sh) f

• Slovak: diskriminácia f
• Slovene: diskriminacija (sl) f
• Spanish: discriminación (es) f
• Swedish: diskriminering (sv) c
• Tajik: дискриминатсия (diskriminatsiya), табъиз (tabʾiz)
• Thai: การเลือกปฏิบัติ (gaan-lʉ̂ʉak-bpà-dtì-bàt)
• Turkish: ayrımcılık (tr)
• Turkmen: diskriminasiýa
• Ukrainian: дискриміна́ція f (dyskryminácija)
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} امتیاز‎ (imtiyāz)
• Uyghur: كەمسىتىش‎ (kemsitish)
• Uzbek: diskriminatsiya (uz), kamsitish
• Vietnamese: phân biệt đối xử, kì thị (vi)
• Yiddish: דיסקרימינאַציע‎ f (diskriminatsye)

See also

• stereotype
• bias
• racism

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French

Etymology

From Latin discrimīnatiō, discrimīnatiōnem. Synchronically, from discriminer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dis.kʁi.mi.na.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -asjɔ̃

Noun

discrimination f (plural discriminations)

1. discrimination, distinction

   discrimination positive ― reverse discrimination, affirmative action

Related terms

• discriminatoire

Further reading

• “discrimination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).