Definition of Anti-semitism

1. Noun. The intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people.

Exact synonyms: Antisemitism
Generic synonyms: Racism
Derivative terms: Anti-semitic, Antisemitic

Definition of Anti-semitism

1. Noun. Prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed against Jews. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anti-semitism

anti-G
anti-G suit
anti-HBc
anti-HBe
anti-HBs
anti-HIV agents
anti-Islamic
anti-Monson curve
anti-P antibody
anti-S
anti-Semite
anti-Semite(a)
anti-Semites
anti-Semitic
anti-Semitically
anti-Semitism
anti-Semitisms
anti-TNF compound
anti-Witness
anti-Witnesses
anti-abolitionism
anti-abortion
anti-abortionism
anti-abortionist
anti-abortionists
anti-aircraft
anti-aliasing
anti-allergic agents
anti-allergic and respiratory system agents
anti-anti-Semitism

Literary usage of Anti-semitism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question by Theodor Herzl, Sylvie d'. Avigdor, Jacob De Haas (1917)
"We cannot get the better of Anti-Semitism by any of these methods. ... CAUSES OF anti-semitism. We shall not again touch on those causes which are a result ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"It is the presence of this class which has done most to prevent the outbreak of anti-Semitism in England, to allay impatience and postpone action to ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"While the main activity of anti-Semitism has manifested itself - r, Germany, ... The circumstance that at the time of th« rise of German anti-Semitism a ..."

4. International Religious Freedom (2000): Report to Congress by the Department edited by Barbara Larkin (2001)
"Of those, 15 persons were convicted for anti-Semitism, 9 for revisionism, ... The Federal Council took action to address the problem of anti-Semitism (see ..."

5. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, from the Earliest Times Until the by Simon Dubnow (1918)
"... anti-semitism Such " measures" were not long in coming. The only restriction the Government of Warsaw failed to carry through. was the enforcement of ..."

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