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ethnosocial

ethnosocial adjective: both ethnic and social.

Adjective

ethnosocial (not comparable)

  1. Both ethnic and social.
    • “Tutsi” and “Hutu” are contested categories that scholars now tend to describe as “ethnosocial.” Most agree that the two groups—who coexist in Rwanda, Burundi, and Eastern Congo—were not simply invented by 19th and 20th-century European scholars, although colonial writers certainly exaggerated...2026 April 13, Massimo Introvigne, “Catholic Bishops Denounce Atrocities in Eastern DR Congo: What Exactly Is Happening and Why?”, in Bitter Winter

Origin of ethnosocial

From ethno- + social.

Questions about ethnosocial

What does ethnosocial mean?
Ethnosocial means both ethnic and social.
What part of speech is ethnosocial?
Ethnosocial is an adjective.

Words near ethnosocial in the dictionary

  1. ethnosemanticist
  2. ethnosemanticists
  3. ethnosemantics
  4. ethnoses
  5. ethnosexism
  6. ethnosocial
  7. ethnosociological
  8. ethnosociologically
  9. ethnosociologies
  10. ethnosociologist
  11. ethnosociologists

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