speciesism
English
/ˈspiːʃiːˌzɪzəm/
noun
Definitions
- (philosophy) An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.
Etymology
Suffix from English species.
Origin
English
species
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- allospecies English
- antispeciesism English
- biospecies English
- chronospecies English
- coenospecies English
- cospecies English
- ecospecies English
- ethnospecies English
- ethospecies English
- genomospecies English
- genospecies English
- heterospecies English
- ichnospecies English
- immunospecies English
- infraspecies English
- interspecies English
- intraspecies English
- kainic English
- macrospecies English
- mandrill English
- microspecies English
- monospecies English
- morphospecies English
- multispecies English
- neostigmine English
- nothospecies English
- oospecies English
- paraspecies English
- phenospecies English
- phylospecies English
- physostigmine English
- protospecies English
- pseudospecies English
- quasispecies English
- ribospecies English
- ryanodine English
- semispecies English
- speciecide English
- species English
- speciesist English
- specieslike English
- specieswide English
- subspecies English
- superspecies English
- supraspecies English
- transspecies English
- trophospecies English
- *speḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- สปีชีส์ Thai
- spishi Swahili
- kainic
- species
- mandrill
- ryanodine
- cospecies
- oospecies
- subspecies
- ecospecies
- speciesist
- speciecide
- biospecies
- specieswide
- allospecies
- ethospecies
- neostigmine
- paraspecies
- ribospecies
- specieslike
- genospecies
- semispecies
- monospecies
- microspecies
- coenospecies
- intraspecies
- ichnospecies
- transspecies
- macrospecies
- quasispecies
- multispecies
- protospecies
- phenospecies
- supraspecies
- ethnospecies
- nothospecies
- phylospecies
- interspecies
- superspecies
- infraspecies
- trophospecies
- pseudospecies
- heterospecies
- chronospecies
- immunospecies
- morphospecies
- genomospecies
- physostigmine
- antispeciesism