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outgroup

The English word “outgroup” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
  2. In cladistics, all the taxa included in a study that do not belong to the ingroup that is of immediate interest.

verb

  1. To form an outgroup.

Etymology

From out- + group.

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