Miscegenation

Quick meaning: Miscegenation is a noun meaning (figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.

Meaning

(figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.

More Meanings

1. (chiefly US) The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.

Example Sentences

... if a miscegenation of Latin and Sanskrit may be permitted.

...'true English' before it was bastardised in its miscegenation with the Norman French.

as is clear in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, it has a horror of any spiritual miscegenation between the human and the natural.

Anissimov took to posting paranoid white supremacist rants on Twitter. Why, he asked, do “blacks get your own continent”? “European whites are being replaced and destroyed by ‘diversity,’” he cried. He denounced miscegenation and declared that women should be confined to the home.

Word Forms

• miscegenations

Synonyms for miscegenation

Depending on context, synonyms include miscegeny, interbreeding, crossbreeding.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include crossbreeding, interbreeding, miscegeny, bastardization, mestization, miscegenator.

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