ingroup
ingroup noun: the social group that one belongs to.
Noun
ingroup (plural ingroups)
- The social group that one belongs to.
- You will learn a lot about formal and informal Japanese language throughout this book. In Japanese society a distinction is made between the 'in-group' (myself, my family, my work colleagues, my friends) and the 'out-group' (my seniors, people from other families and workplaces). Politeness is an...2008, Helen Gilhooly, chapter 1, in Complete Japanese, →ISBN, page 12
- And because people derive personal esteem and meaning from their group memberships, they are naturally inclined to evaluate their ingroups positively in comparison to outgroups. When an ingroup’s dominant social position is secure or not contested by lower-status outgroups, intergroup harmony is...2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25...
- Antonyms:
- outgroup
- In cladistics, the monophyletic group that includes all taxa of interest to the current study.
- A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”, Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436
- Antonyms:
- outgroup
Verb
ingroup (third-person singular simple present ingroups, present participle ingrouping, simple past and past participle ingrouped)
- To form an ingroup.
ingroup meaning in Tamil
ingroup in Tamil
- உள்வட்டம், உட்குழு, தன்னவர் குழு
Antonyms of ingroup
Forms of ingroup
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ingroups |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ingroups |
| present participle | ingrouping |
| past participle | ingrouped |
| past | ingrouped |
Origin of ingroup
From in- + group.
Questions about ingroup
- What does ingroup mean?
- Ingroup means the social group that one belongs to.
- What is ingroup in Tamil?
- Ingroup in Tamil is உள்வட்டம், உட்குழு, தன்னவர் குழு. See Ingroup meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ingroup?
- Ingroup can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of ingroup?
- The plural of ingroup is ingroups.
Words near ingroup in the dictionary
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