intermixture
- noun
- /ˌɪntərˈmɪkʃər/
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mezcla
- Today's tensions are the result of the region's absorption into the Ottoman Empire, which led to the extraordinary dispersion and intermixture of ethnic groups in Balkan and Danubian Europe.
Examples
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The intermixture of analytical arguments, empirical evidence, turf, personal rivalries, and political aspirations makes it difficult even for the participants themselves to understand events that academics, remote from the process, write about with such confidence.
Academic text (1990) -
A degree of rhetorical and symbolic intermixture is inevitable in any movement that, like evangelicalism, seeks actively to expand through conversion, as there are inevitable overlaps and tensions between the tradition as received and life as previously lived.
Academic text (2005) -
Give them a few generations of intermixture, and they can "pass."
Blog text (7) -
As noted in the previous section, the intermixture of narrative present and interior monologue points to the subjective qualities of the present tense.
Academic text (1992) -
Though she had seen enough intermixture to know the percentage of two-headed offspring was rare, intermarriage was something else, outside all her experience and, until Josephine, her credibility.
Fiction book (1995) -
In light of the numerical predominance of the whites, Adams described the result as "the extirpation of the African race on this continent, by the gradually bleaching process of intermixture."
Academic text (1996) -
As a visitor would explain a few years later, "By a confused intermixture of blood, a whole tribe becomes uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, and cousins to each other; and as members of each clan commonly wander abroad and intermarry in distant towns, and others from those towns come in and supply their places, the whole body of the people has become connected by the ties of blood and hospitality, and are really but one great family of relations."
Academic text (2014) -
The intermixture of different ingredients is essential for making a delicious cake.
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Research shows that the intermixture of cultures can lead to innovative ideas and understanding.
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The artist's work reflects a beautiful intermixture of traditional and modern styles.
Synonyms
553
2.3
A mixture of things or parts that form one thing
356
1.8
The joining of two or more things
276
1.0
A group of different things or people that are together
98
2.3
A mix of different things, like colors or spices
58
1.8
Different things put together form one thing
58
1.2
An action that brings two or more things together
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1.8
Putting different things together so they become one
40
2.8
A mix of different things like styles or flavors
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4.1
A joining of two different styles into one, for example music and food
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6.0
A food or drink made by mixing different things, often in a new way
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6.8
A mixture of different ideas or styles
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8.2
A mixture of different things, often very varied and unexpected
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8.1
Something added to another thing to mix with it
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2.7
Mixing different things together until they form an even mixture
Putting different things together to make one thing
Mixing different things together to make one whole
Joining two or more things to make one
A mixture of many bright, different parts like colors and sounds
A confused mix of different things like old toys and books
Antonyms
How Mixed
- Specialized
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8.6
98
2.3
- Specialized
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3.5
553
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word intermixture comes from the parts inter- meaning 'between' and mixture from the verb 'mix'. So an intermixture is different things mixed together, which is why it means a mixture of different substances.