ethnicity

Noun

Meaning

an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

ethnic nationality ethnically ethnical arrack way of life ethnic group ethnic minority skin colour racially multi-ethnic nationhood

Hypernyms

quality

Related terms

ethnology ethnic ethnically ethnical ethnos

Phrases with the word

slovene ethnicity multi-ethnicity black ethnicity javanese ethnicity minority ethnicity ethnicity based dicrimination

Examples

ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations Source: Internet

Abdul-Bashir said he believed the attackers were Fulanis, members of the traditionally nomadic herder ethnicity. Source: Internet

Adding the characters “the People’s Republic of China” will indeed strengthen people’s sense of identity as Chinese, but it will not for those who are not of Chinese ethnicity. Source: Internet

About the influence of ethnicity on his work Elkin said he admired most "the writers who are stylists, Jewish or not. Source: Internet

According to Arthur K. Spears in Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 2006: In many African-American neighborhoods, nigga is simply the most common term used to refer to any male, of any race or ethnicity. Source: Internet

According to these sources, the reason Lee was not cast was in part because of his ethnicity, but more so because he had a thick accent. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ethnicism ethnicist ethnicistic ethnicity based dicrimination ethnicization ethnicize