ethnicity meaning

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Definition of ethnicity in English Dictionary

• NounPLethnicitiesPREethn-SUF-ity+-
  1. The common characteristics of a group of people.
     1. Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
  2. An ethnic group.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • These CD4 T cell-related variables were associated with ethnicity and were excluded from the initial model, to prevent overadjustment.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Morphemes
     • Suffixes
       • Words by suffix
         • Words suffixed with -ity
  2. Nouns
     • Countable nouns

Other Vocabulary

1. fr ethnicité
2. en ethnicky
3. en tonicity
4. en ethnicize
5. en ethnicism