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outgroups

outgroups is the plural 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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Questions about outgroups

What is outgroups the plural of?
Outgroups is the plural of outgroup.

Words near outgroups in the dictionary

  1. outgrouped
  2. outgrouper
  3. outgroupers
  4. outgrouping
  5. outgroupings
  6. outgroups
  7. outgrow
  8. outgrower
  9. outgrowers
  10. outgroweth
  11. outgrowing

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