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miscegenation

/mɪˌsɛd͡ʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/

miscegenation noun: the mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.

Noun

miscegenation (countable and uncountable, plural miscegenations)

  1. (US) The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
    • Anissimov took to posting paranoid white supremacist rants on Twitter. Why, he asked, do “blacks get your own continent”? “European whites are being replaced and destroyed by ‘diversity,’” he cried. He denounced miscegenation and declared that women should be confined to the home.2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die, Metropolitan Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page
  2. (figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
    • as is clear in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, it has a horror of any spiritual miscegenation between the human and the natural.1991, Frederick Turner, Rebirth of Value: Meditations on Beauty, Ecology, Religion, and Education, page 57
    • ... if a miscegenation of Latin and Sanskrit may be permitted.1981, Dale Maurice Riepe, Asian Philosophy Today, page 22

miscegenation meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic

miscegenation in Tamil

the mixing or blending of race
இடையினத் திருமணம் iṭaiyiṉat tirumaṇam

miscegenation in Urdu

miscegenation, interracial marriage
اختلاط نسل ixtilāt-e-nasl

miscegenation in Bengali

বিভিন্ন জাতির মধ্যে আন্তঃবিবাহ, মিশ্রণ

miscegenation in Arabic

the mixing or blending of race
تَمَازُج الأَجْنَاسِ tamāzuj al-ʔajnāsi

Synonyms of miscegenation

Forms of miscegenation

pluralmiscegenations

Origin of miscegenation

Blend of Latin miscēre (“mix”) + Latin genus (“race”) + -ation. Coined by American journalist David Goodman Croly in 1864 and first used in an anonymous pamphlet he coauthored, which claimed to be written by a person who believed in the inherent unity of all racial groups, that marriage between blacks and whites would create a better race, and that the American Civil War was a fight for the latter idea. Later, it was exposed that the pretext of the pamphlet was false and that it had actually been written by a group which hoped to inflame anger, particularly against then-US President Abraham Lincoln who was up for reelection. Replaced previous amalgamation, from metallurgy.

Words formed from miscegenation

Words that rhyme with miscegenation

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Questions about miscegenation

What does miscegenation mean?
Miscegenation means the mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
What is miscegenation in Tamil?
Miscegenation in Tamil is இடையினத் திருமணம் (iṭaiyiṉat tirumaṇam). See Miscegenation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is miscegenation?
Miscegenation is a noun.
How do you pronounce miscegenation?
Miscegenation is pronounced /mɪˌsɛd͡ʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/.
What is the plural of miscegenation?
The plural of miscegenation is miscegenations.

Words near miscegenation in the dictionary

  1. miscegen
  2. miscegenate
  3. miscegenated
  4. miscegenates
  5. miscegenating
  6. miscegenation
  7. miscegenational
  8. miscegenationist
  9. miscegenationists
  10. miscegenations
  11. miscegenative

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miscegenation (page history and authors); اختلاط نسل (Urdu) (page history and authors); miscegenation (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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