- relating to, involving, or fostering discrimination against disabled people: ableist language;ableist architecture;implicitly ableist laws.
- tending to regard people with a disability as incomplete, diminished, or damaged, and to measure the quality of life with a disability against a nondisabled standard: an ableist culture;ableist assumptions.
- A person with ableist assumptions, beliefs, or attitudes: The work of changing how ableists think often falls to people with disabilities.
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