Word: heightism
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: heigh
ti
sm
Definition: A prejudiced attitude about human height that often results in discrimination, based on the belief that unusually short or tall people are inferior and undesirable.
Morphemes:
Affix: high
Language: en
PoS: Adjective
Meaning: Having a specified elevation or height; tall.
Affix: -th
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns from adjectives.
Affix: -ism
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form names of a tendency of behaviour, action, state, condition or opinion belonging to a class or group of persons, or the result of a doctrine, ideology or principle or lack thereof.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ισμός
Language: grc
Decoded: -ismos
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Forms abstract nouns.