tokenist

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English

Etymology

From token +‎ -ist, after tokenism.

Pronunciation

Adjective

tokenist (comparative more tokenist, superlative most tokenist)

  1. Pertaining to or indicative of tokenism.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 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.

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