untouchability

untouchable +‎ -ity

untouchability (uncountable)

1. The state or condition of being untouchable.
   • 2008 June 15, Anand Giridharadas, “Indian to the Core, and an Oligarch”, in New York Times‎:

     Can we make sure that we create a social structure where we remove untouchability?

   • 2021, Will Storr, The Status Game:

     One study found about a third accpeting they'd earned untouchability by committing sins in past lives, with others blaming unfairness or believing a more self-serving version of the Hindu dream, cleaiming 'they never took a true plunge in status, that they were really Brahmans in disguise.'

• untouchableness