Ethnogenesis
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The emergence of a distinct, recognizable, ethnic identity. countable, uncountable
Etymology
From ethno- + -genesis. While attested incidentally before the twentieth century, it gained currency particularly in the postwar era as a scholarly concept.
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