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miscegenational

miscegenational

9.9
About people from different races marrying or living together
  • adjective
  • /ˌmɪsɪˈdʒɛnəˌʃənl/
  • Archaic
translation icon : miscegenacional
  • Some communities celebrate their miscegenational heritage through festivals that honor cultural diversity.

Examples

  • The English angst about racial infection lingering around the textual body is not limited to miscegenational fear as the "infection" gets more and more metaphoric.

    Academic text (2017)

  • She wrote a book about the impact of miscegenational relationships on society and family structures.

  • The documentary explored miscegenational families and how they navigate different cultural traditions.

Synonyms

interracial
vsmiscegenational
46 4.3

Involving people from different races

emphasizes mixing especially by marriage or cohabitation
multicultural
vsmiscegenational
38 3.8

Having people from many countries and backgrounds living and working together

focuses on biological racial mixing rather than cultural diversity
biracial
vsmiscegenational
17 4.3

Made up of people from two different races

covers mixing across any number of races, not only two
multiracial
vsmiscegenational
14 4.0

Made up of people from different races

focuses on mixing through close relationships like marriage or cohabitation
transracial
vsmiscegenational
4 6.8

Relating to people of different races, often in families or adoption

is broader, applying to mixing by marriage or cohabitation generally
mixed
vsmiscegenational
1 3.0

Having people of different races living or working together

is the technical term stressing marriage or cohabitation mixing
interethnic
vsmiscegenational
1 5.7

Involving people from different racial or cultural groups

concerns racial mixing with special focus on close unions
biethnic
vsmiscegenational
7.4

Relating to two different ethnic groups

focuses on racial mixing specifically rather than ethnic categories
polyethnic
vsmiscegenational
7.4

Having people from several different ethnic groups

is about racial mixing, not cultural or ethnic diversity
multi-ethnic
vsmiscegenational
3.7

Having people from different ethnic groups living or working together

is about racial mixing especially in intimate relationships
exogamous
vsmiscegenational
  • Specialized
9.9

To marry or breed with members outside one's own group

is specifically about racial group mixing, not any outside marriage

Surface Forms

miscegenational positive

Morphology

miscegenational = miscegenation (transparent) = miscegenation + al

The adjective is a regular suffixal derivation from the noun 'miscegenation', so the meaning is directly recoverable from the base word and '-al'.

Etymology

The word miscegenational comes from Latin parts miscere 'to mix' and gens 'clan' or 'race'. You can remember miscere by thinking of the English word 'mix' and gens by thinking of 'gene' or 'generation'. So, miscegenational describes the mixing of different racial groups, often by marriage.