Ethnicity

Pronunciation

Origin

ethnic + -ity

Full definition of ethnicity

Noun

1. The common characteristics of a group of people.
• 2012, Jan Sapp, Race Finished, Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
2. An ethnic group.

Related terms

• ethnic
• ethnical
• ethnically
• ethnology