racialism noun3 •The belief that humans can be categorized as belonging to distinct races, each race being characterized by fixed and heritable traits.Yet such racialism was built upon the data of philology, inferring discrete racial groups from different speech varieties. — 2020 •Racism, the belief in the existence of different races and that some are superior to others; policies or practices which promote the dominance of one or more races over others. •(UK, old-fashioned) Tribalism, nationalism. formsracialisms