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Meaning of "monogenist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MONOGENIST

monogenist  [mɒˈnɒdʒəˌnɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MONOGENIST

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determiner
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Monogenist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MONOGENIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Monogenism

Monogenism or sometimes monogenesis is the theory of human origins which posits a common descent for all human races. The negation of monogenism is polygenism. This issue was hotly debated in the Western world in the nineteenth century, as the assumptions of scientific racism came under scrutiny both from religious groups and in the light of developments in the life sciences and human science. It was integral to early conceptions of ethnology.

Definition of monogenist in the English dictionary

The definition of monogenist in the dictionary is a person who subscribes to the proposition that all humankind has one couple of common ancestors.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MONOGENIST


adoptianist
əˈdɒpʃəˌnɪst
campanist
ˈkæmpəˌnɪst
communist
ˈkɒmjʊnɪst
ecumenist
ɪˈkjuːməˌnɪst
expressionist
ɪkˈsprɛʃənɪst
fashionist
ˈfæʃəˌnɪst
feminist
ˈfɛmɪnɪst
finest
ˈfaɪnɪst
galvanist
ˈɡælvəˌnɪst
gramophonist
ɡræˈmɒfəˌnɪst
hegemonist
hɪˈɡeməˌnɪst
hereditarianist
hɪˌrɛdɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪst
honest
ˈɒnɪst
miscegenist
mɪˈsedʒɪˌnɪst
mnemonist
ˈniːməˌnɪst
Neo-Platonist
ˌniːəʊˈpleɪtəˌnɪst
polygenist
pəˈlɪdʒəˌnɪst
receptionist
rɪˈsɛpʃənɪst
Situationist
sɪtjʊˈeɪʃəˌnɪst
stercoranist
ˈstɜːkərəˌnɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MONOGENIST

monogamously
monogamousness
monogamy
monogastric
monogenean
monogenesis
monogenetic
monogenic
monogenically
monogenism
monogenistic
monogenous
monogeny
monogerm
monoglot
monoglyceride
monogony
monogram
monogrammatic
monogrammed

WORDS THAT END LIKE MONOGENIST

abiogenist
alienist
columnist
dental hygienist
epigenist
eugenist
euthenist
Galenist
geomorphogenist
Hellenist
hygienist
Jansenist
larcenist
lichenist
lutenist
oral hygienist
Panhellenist
philhellenist
phillumenist
plenist
Zenist

Synonyms and antonyms of monogenist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «monogenist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MONOGENIST

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The translations of monogenist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «monogenist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

monogenist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

monogenista
570 millions of speakers

English

monogenist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

monogenist
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

monogenist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

monogenist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

monogenista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

monogenist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

monogéniste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monogenis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

monogenist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

monogenist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

monogenist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Monogenis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

monogenist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

monogenist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोनोजिझनिस्ट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

monogenist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

monogenist
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

monogenist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

monogenist
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

monogenist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

monogenist
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

monogenist
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

monogenist
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

monogenist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of monogenist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOGENIST»

The term «monogenist» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.215 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MONOGENIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about monogenist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONOGENIST»

Discover the use of monogenist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to monogenist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Java Man: How Two Geologists Changed Our Understanding of ...
On one hand — the monogenist view — all human races were said to derive from a common origin. On the other — the polygenist view — races were seen as the separate products of separate origins. The monogenist polygenist divide has a ...
Carl C. Swisher III, Garniss H. Curtis, Roger Lewin, 2001
2
The Evolution of Deficit Thinking: Educational Thought and ...
The authors of this text argue that deficit thinking is a pseudo-science founded on racial and class bias. They trace the evolution of deficit thinking from the American colonial period to the present, critiquing the model and offering more
Richard R. Valencia, 2012
3
The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant ...
Nevertheless, there were alternative monogenist theories of how the American continent had first been settled. In his History of the American Indians (1775), James Adair dismissed the co-Adamite theories of Kames, arguing instead from an ...
Colin Kidd, 2006
4
Desire and Contradiction: Imperial Visions and Domestic ...
In this sense, it was implicidy monogenist in tendency. Yet it also led to a re- emphasis on racial essences, especially later in the nineteenth century as the discovery of other major language families unrelated to the Indo-European led ...
Daniel Bivona, 1990
5
Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial ...
As an environmentalist, the monogenist had drawn his schema of race classification from changes in the genus Homo. His race classification and derivation of race stocks, drawn from his measuring instruments, contained built- in feelings of ...
John S. Haller, 1971
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Alas, for the Pelicans: Flinders, Baudin & Beyond : Essays ...
In the midst of such disruptions the theory of polygenism arose, in contrast to the hitherto accepted monogenist beliefs in the origins of humankind." Polygenism held that the differences amongst the various human groups could not be ...
‎2002
7
In Darwin's Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel ...
Wallace's interest in the monogenist/polygenist debate began soon after his return from the Malay Archipelago in 1862. By 1864 he presented his paper “The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man” to the Anthropological Society of ...
Michael Shermer, 2002
8
Cajal's Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System
NERVES. The two opposing schools : the monogenist and the pluralist, polycjenisl, or catenary. — Investigations of Waller, Vulpian, Brown-Sequard, Bungner, Bethe and Monckeberg. — Histological studies of Ranvier, Vanlair, Stroebe, etc.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Javier DeFelipe, Edward G. Jones, 1991
9
Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in ...
Lawrence was a monogenist; but one could certainly be a monogenist and a racist, as his own example shows: “if it be allowed that all men are of the same species,” Lawrence said, “it does not follow that they all descend from the same family” ...
Richard Lansdown, 2006
10
Dictionary of Concepts in Cultural Anthropology
In the controversy over race, notably in Britain, ethnology was associated with the monogenist perspective, a view justified in part by biblical teaching. Although sympathetic to evolutionist ideas, the ethnologists emphasized historical ...
Robert H. Winthrop, 1991

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONOGENIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term monogenist is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Cannibal Club: Racism and Rabble-Rousing in Victorian England
The conflict captured the imagination of Victorian England and, by 1863, drove a wedge between the polygenist and monogenist members of ... «Smithsonian, Jul 14»
2
The End of Reformed Old Testament Scholars?
Waltke's still a monogenist about human origins, and still sees Adam as coming to bear the divine image by a special divine act. His viewpoint ... «Beliefnet.com, Apr 10»
3
Dr. Josef Mengele, Angel of Death and “Devotee of Darwin”
Indeed, Darwin's advocacy of the monogenist origins of humanity did far more ... Darwin was no racist and his monogenist view of the origins of ... «Beliefnet.com, Dec 09»

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