Blondism

Origin

blond + -ism

Full definition of blondism

Noun

1. (anthropology) The presence of blond hair and relatively pale skin and eyes in a member of a usually darker race.
• 1927, John Macmillan Brown, Peoples & problems of the Pacific (volume 2, page 276)Blondism artificially produced in Micronesia and Melanesia as in Polynesia indicates a blond element in the last conquering immigration.
• 1931, Carleton Stevens Coon, Tribes of the Rif (page 348)In the beard latent blondism is likely to come out.