Untouchability is the practice of ostracising a group of people regarded as 'untouchables', as ascribed in the Vedic Hindu literature to persons of "high caste" or to persons excluded from the caste system resulting in the segregation and persecutions from the people regarded as "higher" caste.

What does it mean if someone is untouchable?

1a : forbidden to the touch : not to be handled. b : exempt from criticism or control. 2 : lying beyond reach. 3 : disagreeable or defiling to the touch. untouchable.

What is another word for untouchable?

In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for untouchable, like: intangible, impalpable, inviolable, taboo, imperceptible, invulnerable, invisible, sacrosanct, forbidden, denied and illegal.