outgroup
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outgroup
noun outgroups
- The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group. This dissertation promises to correct for this theoretical deficit by formulating, elaborating, and ultimately testing a group-based moral emotions account in which white Americans’ moral appraisals of and attitudes towards racial/ethnic outgroups are considerably influenced by those of and towards
- In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest. A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and two outgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.
Opposite: ingroup
verb outgroups · outgrouping · outgrouped
- To form an outgroup.
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noun
Opposite: ingroup
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Talk about this word "outgroup." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/outgroup. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. outgroup. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/outgroup "outgroup." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/outgroup.Cite this
@misc{outgroup_2026,
title = {outgroup},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/outgroup},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
