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miscegenations

miscegenations is the plural of miscegenation.

Meaning of miscegenation

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

Questions about miscegenations

What is miscegenations the plural of?
Miscegenations is the plural of miscegenation.

Words near miscegenations in the dictionary

  1. miscegenating
  2. miscegenation
  3. miscegenational
  4. miscegenationist
  5. miscegenationists
  6. miscegenations
  7. miscegenative
  8. miscegenator
  9. miscegenators
  10. miscegene
  11. miscegenes

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