Synonyms of racialism

racialism

noun

ˈrā-shə-ˌli-zəm 

1

as in racism

the belief that certain races of people are by birth and nature superior to others

the racialism of some of the nation's founders seems to contradict their professed belief that "all men are created equal"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• racism
• segregation
• apartheid
• eugenics
• separatism

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• integration
• desegregation

2

as in prejudice

hatred of or discrimination against a person or persons based on their race

an ugly incident of racialism that campus police are investigating

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prejudice
• racism
• segregation
• apartheid
• bigotry
• race-baiting
• intolerance
• separatism
• Jim Crow
• narrowness
• narrow-mindedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• antidiscrimination
• antiracism
• assimilationism
• antisegregation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of racialism

Internally, the adoption of multi-racialism as a policy was designed to diminish—even if, initially, imperceptibly—the social and economic influence of white South Africans, and to displace them, at least partly, by the local petite bourgeoisie. — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 15 Aug. 2025

In our day, he is reviled for his imperialism, racialism, and even his humorously excessive appreciation for a fine cigar. — Peter J. Travers, National Review, 7 Dec. 2021

Today, certain people talk about racialism, indigenism, and decolonial theories, but beneath these terms hateful and fanatical agitators want a race war. — Harrison Stetler, The New Republic, 24 May 2021

King never seriously entertained the utopian ideas of Black emigration or the romantic racialism of Muhammad’s Black nationalism. — Brandon M. Terry, The New York Review of Books, 11 Mar. 2021

Post-racialism is the promise of working to move beyond the perils of the Black condition in America, an achievement of Black acceleration and exceptionalism; when transcending race was aspirational and thought of to be wholly possible. — Taylor Renee Aldridge, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Feb. 2021

Hawley describes Roosevelt as driven by a combination of warrior republicanism and crude racialism, which at times led him to adopt autocratic racial theories and dreams of imperial conquest. — Zaid Jilani, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020

This seed of scientific racialism waxed and reached its peaks in the years around 1900, before waning in the 20th century. — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2011