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raciation

raciation noun: the division of people or other organisms into races.

Noun

raciation (countable and uncountable, plural raciations)

  1. The division of people or other organisms into races.
    • But socially, raciation is one of the most debated and important issues of modern times.1975, Marvin Harris, Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General Anthropology
    • European experiences and concerns that there was a serious failure to appreciate the extent to which inequalities conditioned by biologically informed geographical raciations differed from inequalities that could be appropriately understood through the concepts of an ethnicity localized to groups...1999, Christine Koggel, Moral Issues in Global Perspective, →ISBN, page 220

Forms of raciation

pluralraciations

Origin of raciation

From race + -ation.

Questions about raciation

What does raciation mean?
Raciation means the division of people or other organisms into races.
What part of speech is raciation?
Raciation is a noun.
What is the plural of raciation?
The plural of raciation is raciations.

Words near raciation in the dictionary

  1. racially-profile
  2. racially-profiled
  3. racially-profiles
  4. racially-profiling
  5. racials
  6. raciation
  7. raciations
  8. Racibórz
  9. Racicot
  10. Racicots
  11. racier

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