Tokenist

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈtəʊk(É™)nɪst/

Origin

From token + -ist, after tokenism.

Full definition of tokenist

Adjective

1. Pertaining to or indicative of tokenism.
• 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 368:The question of whether women could be masons at all was hotly debated, and though many women did join, this was usually in affiliative ‘lodges of adoption’, which were restricted to a tokenist, decorative and spectatorial role.