ETHNICITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ethnicity mean? 

• ETHNICITY (noun)
  The noun ETHNICITY has 1 sense:

1. an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties

  Familiarity information: ETHNICITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETHNICITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations

Hypernyms ("ethnicity" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Derivation:

ethnic (denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people)

 Context examples 

Any factor such as (age, ethnicity, genetic factor, family history, over-exposure to estrogen, environmental factors) which increase a person's chance of developing breast cancer.

(Breast Cancer Risk Factor, NCI Thesaurus)

In all groups, suicide rates were higher for non-Hispanic white patients than for patients of other ethnicities.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

Also includes people of Jewish ethnicity including Sephardic and Ashkenazic.

(Middle Eastern, NCI Thesaurus)

Ethnicity not reported record means that data on ethnicity is not provided or available.

(Ethnicity not Reported, NCI Thesaurus)

These standards are supported for the whole population irrespective of height, race or ethnicity.

(Excessive Weight Gain in Pregnancy, NCI Thesaurus)

A model that predicts a person's risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer based on family cancer history (including relatives' age at diagnosis) and ethnicity.

(Myriad Model, NCI Thesaurus)

The scientists also looked at characteristics that can otherwise contribute to mortality risk, such as age, race, ethnicity, smoking, and socioeconomic status.

(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)

They also compared data on participants’ age, sex, ethnicity, and education.

(How dietary factors influence disease risk, NIH)

Also, sImilar to the concept of ethnic origin which is an attempt to classify people, not according to their current ethnicity, but according to where their ancestors came from.

(Ethnicity, NCI Thesaurus)

The concept of ethnic origin is an attempt to classify people, not according to their current ethnicity, but according to where their ancestors came from.

(Ethnic Origin, NCI Thesaurus)