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However, this distribution of meanings between the two terms used to be precisely inverse at the time they were coined: The Oxford English Dictionary defined “ racialism ” as “ belief in the superiority of a particular race ” and gives a 1907 quote as the first recorded use.

The shortened term “ racism ” did not appear in the English language until the 1930s.

It was first defined by the OED as “ he theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race ”, which gives 1936 as the first recorded use.

Additionally, the OED records racism as a synonym of racialism: " belief in the superiority of a particular race ".

By the end of World War II, racism had acquired the same supremacist connotations former associated with racialism: racism now implied racial discrimination, racial supremacism and a harmful intent.

( The term “ race hatred ” had also been used by sociologist Frederick Hertz in the late 1920s.