Outgroup
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Outgroup is a noun meaning (sociology) The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
Meaning
(sociology) The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
More Meanings
- (systematics) In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.
- To form an outgroup.
Example Sentences
A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.
To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.
Word Forms
- outgroups
- outgrouping
- outgrouped
Antonyms for outgroup
Common opposites include ingroup.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ingroup, antisociety, exoethnonym, minority, exclusive, aberrant.
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