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ethnicisms

ethnicisms is the plural of ethnicism.

Meaning of ethnicism

Noun

ethnicism (countable and uncountable, plural ethnicisms)

  1. An emphasis upon ethnic identity.
  2. Prejudice based on ethnic origin.
    Synonyms:
    racism
  3. (obsolete) heathenism; pagan superstition.
    1. (broadly, obsolete, rare) religions from Antiquity regarded collectively apart from Christianity and Judaism.
    2. (broadly, obsolete, rare) the characteristics of these religions.

Questions about ethnicisms

What is ethnicisms the plural of?
Ethnicisms is the plural of ethnicism.

Words near ethnicisms in the dictionary

  1. ethnicise
  2. ethnicised
  3. ethnicises
  4. ethnicising
  5. ethnicism
  6. ethnicisms
  7. ethnicist
  8. ethnicistic
  9. ethnicists
  10. ethnicities
  11. ethnicity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ethnicisms (page history and authors); ethnicism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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