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out-group

out-group is the alternative form of outgroup.

Meaning of outgroup

Noun

outgroup (plural outgroups)

  1. The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
    • This dissertation promises to correct for this theoretical deficit by formulating, elaborating, and ultimately testing a group-based moral emotions account in which white Americans’ moral appraisals of and attitudes towards racial/ethnic outgroups are considerably influenced by those of and towards...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...
  2. (systematics) In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
    • 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

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Forms of out-group

pluralout-groups

Questions about out-group

What is out-group the alternative form of?
Out-group is the alternative form of outgroup.

Words near out-group in the dictionary

  1. out-generaled
  2. out-go
  3. out-goes
  4. out-going
  5. out-gone
  6. out-group
  7. out-groups
  8. out-guess
  9. out-gun
  10. out-gunned
  11. out-gunning

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