Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postracist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pos-tracist
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

After the decline of racism, or its transformation into a less overt form.

Example Sentences

"In “The Race Card” Richard Thompson Ford, a professor at Stanford Law School, offers the cabdriver problem as a classic illustration of why racial prejudice is so hard to identify and address in an era he defines as postracist, when the social and legal meaning of racism, he writes, “is in a state of crisis.”"

Etymology

From post- + racist.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: post

Frequently Paired Words

postracism

Questions

What does postracist mean?: After the decline of racism, or its transformation into a less overt form.
Where does postracist come from?: From post- + racist.

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