Meaning of healthism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The use of propaganda and coercion (as by government or advertising) to impose established norms of health.
   uncountable
2. An excessive preoccupation with one's health.
   derogatory, uncommon, uncountable
3. Discrimination on the basis of one's health status.
   derogatory, uncommon, uncountable

Examples

“The locals are not much restrained by the old puritanical or Protestant code. Instead, they have⟳ constructed their own⟳ ethos of environmentalism, healthism, and egalitarianism that makes it bad form⟳ to spend⟳ money lavishly or live⟳ ostentatiously.”

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