different between mongolism vs mongoloid

English

Etymology

Mongol +? -ism, coined by John Langdon Down.

Noun

mongolism (countable and uncountable, plural mongolisms)

1. (now offensive) Down syndrome

Translations

Related terms

• mongol
• mongoloid
• mong

Romanian

Etymology

From French mongolisme

Noun

mongolism n (uncountable)

1. Mongolism

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• Mongoloid (especially the racial classification)

Etymology

Mongol +? -oid

Noun

mongoloid (plural mongoloids)

1. (anthropology, dated, offensive) A member of the racial classification of humanity composed of peoples native to North Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, Pacific Oceania, and the Americas, as well as their diaspora in other parts of the world.
   • 1997, Masatoshi Nei, Arun K. Roychoudhury, Genetic Relationship and Evolution of Human Races, page 38,

     As before, the genetic distance between Caucasoid and Mongoloid is the smallest and that between Negroid and Mongoloid is the largest.

2. (now offensive) A person with Down syndrome.
   • 1967, W. Wolfensberger, 13: Counseling Parents of the Retarded, Alfred A. Baumeister (editor), Ameliorating Mental Disability: Questioning Retardation, 2009, page 376,

     Kirman (1953) drew attention to some physicians' reluctance to offer even ordinary and routine medical care to mongoloids, whose treatment they consider a waste of time.
3. (offensive) Idiot, retard; a general term of abuse, due to association with Down syndrome.

Usage notes

Due to associations with old racial (and racist) theories (as with Caucasoid, Negroid), and associations with Down syndrome, the term is highly offensive.

Derived terms

• (idiot, retard): mong, mongo (British, chiefly Scottish)

Related terms

• Mongol
• Mongolian
• mongolism

Translations

See also

• Australoid
• Caucasoid
• negroid

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m???olo??i?t/

Adjective

mongoloid (not comparable)

1. (somewhat dated) affected by the Down syndrome; mongoloid

Usage notes

• The German adjective is not usually considered offensive, or at most very slightly so. Nevertheless, constructions with Downsyndrom are now more common.

Derived terms

• Mongo

See also

• mongolid (“of the Mongoloid race”)