Definizione monolingua

miscegenation

miscegenation (uncountable)

1. (chiefly US) The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
2. (figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
   • 1991, Frederick Turner, Rebirth of Value: Meditations on Beauty, Ecology, Religion, and Education, page 57:

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

   • 1981, Dale Maurice Riepe, Asian Philosophy Today, page 22:

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

   • 2001, Ken Hirschkop, David Shepherd, Bakhtin and Cultural Theory, page 180:

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

Definizione dizionario miscegenation

mescolanza razziale

Altri significati:

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

the mixing or blending of race

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

Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons).