Fromout- +group.
outgroup (pluraloutgroups)
- (sociology) The group of people who do not belong to one's own social group.
2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, inGeorgia State University[1], archived fromthe original on25 January 2025, pages9, 13: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/ethnicoutgroups are considerably influenced by those of and towards fellow whites.[…] On the basis of the insights from intergroup emotions theory, Chapter 3 derives and presents a series of preliminary hypotheses that are designed to test the relative importance of white shame and guilt for white Americans’ support for equity-oriented pro-black policies (e.g. affirmative action, financial reparations) and expressions ofoutgroup favoritism.
- (systematics) Incladistics, all thetaxa included in astudy that do not belong to theingroup that is of immediate interest.
- 2009 January 15, Martin D. Brazeau, “The braincase and jaws of a Devonian 'acanthodian' and modern gnathostome origins”,Nature Volume 457 No. 7227, doi:10.1038/nature07436:
- A cladistic analysis of 45 ingroup and twooutgroup taxa was performed on the basis of 134 characters.
2012, Dongyou Liu,Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens, page293:To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, withT. solium as theoutgroup.
- (antonym(s) of“systematics”):ingroup
- (antonym(s) of“sociology”):ingroup
outgroup (third-person singular simple presentoutgroups,present participleoutgrouping,simple past and past participleoutgrouped)
- Toform an outgroup.
