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pigmentocracies

pigmentocracies is the plural of pigmentocracy.

Meaning of pigmentocracy

Noun

pigmentocracy (countable and uncountable, plural pigmentocracies)

  1. Government by or social hierarchy of those with a certain skin tone, regardless of race or socioeconomic status.
    • Black America used to be, and perhaps still is, a pigmentocracy, which means that the social hierarchy is based largely on colorism.2011, Don Lemon, Transparent, Las Vegas: Farrah Gray, →ISBN

Questions about pigmentocracies

What is pigmentocracies the plural of?
Pigmentocracies is the plural of pigmentocracy.

Words near pigmentocracies in the dictionary

  1. pigmentizes
  2. pigmentizing
  3. pigmentless
  4. pigmentlessness
  5. pigmentlike
  6. pigmentocracies
  7. pigmentocracy
  8. pigmentocratic
  9. pigmentous
  10. pigments
  11. pigmenturia

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