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PRONUNCIATION OF POLYGENESIS

polygenesis  [ˌpɒlɪˈdʒɛnɪsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POLYGENESIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Polygenesis 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 POLYGENESIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of polygenesis in the English dictionary

The definition of polygenesis in the dictionary is evolution of a polyphyletic organism or group. Other definition of polygenesis is the hypothetical descent of the different races of man from different ultimate ancestors.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POLYGENESIS


abiogenesis
ˌeɪbaɪəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
atherogenesis
ˌæθərəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
biogenesis
ˌbaɪəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
carcinogenesis
ˌkɑːsɪnəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
diagenesis
ˌdaɪəˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
dysgenesis
dɪsˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
gametogenesis
ˌɡæmɪtəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
genesis
ˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
gluconeogenesis
ˌɡluːkəʊˌniːəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
lipogenesis
ˌlɪpəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
morphogenesis
ˌmɔːfəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
mutagenesis
ˌmjuːtəˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
ontogenesis
ˌɒntəˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
oogenesis
ˌəʊəˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
organogenesis
ˌɔːɡənəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
osteogenesis
ˌɒstɪəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
parthenogenesis
ˌpɑːθɪnəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
pathogenesis
ˌpæθəˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
thermogenesis
ˌθɜːməʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs
tumorigenesis
ˌtjuːmərɪˈdʒɛnɪsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POLYGENESIS

polygalaceous
polygam
polygamic
polygamise
polygamist
polygamize
polygamous
polygamously
polygamy
polygene
polygenetic
polygenetically
polygenic
polygenism
polygenist
polygenous
polygeny
polyglot
polyglotism
polyglottal

WORDS THAT END LIKE POLYGENESIS

anamnesis
angiogenesis
anthropogenesis
chondrogenesis
cytokinesis
embryogenesis
epigenesis
histogenesis
kinesis
melanogenesis
neogenesis
neurogenesis
oncogenesis
petrogenesis
psychokinesis
pyrokinesis
steroidogenesis
synthesis
telekinesis
teratogenesis
transgenesis

Synonyms and antonyms of polygenesis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «polygenesis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POLYGENESIS

Find out the translation of polygenesis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of polygenesis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «polygenesis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

多源
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

poligénesis
570 millions of speakers

English

polygenesis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

polygenesis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

polygenesis
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

полигенезис
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

poligenese
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

polygenesis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

polygenèse
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Polygenesis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Polygenese
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

polygenesis
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

polygenesis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Polygenesis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

polygenesis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட உயிரினத்தினின்றும் வருகிற இனம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बहुजनके
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

polygenesis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poligenesi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

polygenesis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

полігенезіс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

polygenesis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

polygenesis
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

polygenesis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

polygenesis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

polygenesis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of polygenesis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYGENESIS»

The term «polygenesis» is used very little and occupies the 180.089 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POLYGENESIS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POLYGENESIS»

Discover the use of polygenesis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to polygenesis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mima Mounds: The Case for Polygenesis and Bioturbation
Papers mostly from Geological Society of America Annual Meetings and field trips held in Houston, Texas, October 4-9, 2008.
Jennifer L. Horwath Burnham, Donald Lee Johnson, 2012
2
'The Offspring of Infidelity': Polygenesis and the Defense ...
Focusing on the printed materials of the public sphere, this work explores the impact of a newly popular doctrine within ethnology, polygenesis, on the southern defense of slavery.
Christopher Luse, 2008
3
A Contemporary Anabaptist Theology: Biblical, Historical, ...
Packull's effort in particular illustrated a shift from monogenesis to polygenesis in the study of Anabaptist origins. According to the polygenesis perspective most widely accepted today, Anabaptism arose not from one main origin (Switzerland)  ...
Thomas N. Finger, 2010
4
Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction
One of the earliest steps toward polygenesis was taken by the Scottish judge Lord Henry H. Kames (1696-1782). In his Sketches of the History of Man (1774), Kames averred that environment, climate, or state of society could not account for  ...
John P. Jackson, Nadine M. Weidman, 2004
5
The Rise of Anthropological Theory: A History of Theories of ...
The historian William Stanton ( 1960) has shown, however, that polygenesis, for all its attractions as a rationale for treating some human groups like animals of another species, never caught on as the ideology of slavocracy. POLYGENESIS  ...
Marvin Harris, 2001
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Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology
(1990: 309) offered this definition of polygenesis: Polygenetic soil (and polygenesis) connotes multiple genetic linkages of exogenous and endogenous processes, factors and conditions, including evolved accessions, thresholds, and  ...
Randall J. Schaetzl, Sharon Anderson, 2005
7
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, ...
ONOGENESIS/POLYGENESIS Origin from a single source (mono) or from multiple sources (poly), or the theory that an item has a point of beginning or origin (its genesis) and that the beginning may have been from one single source  ...
Thomas A. Green, 1997
8
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales: G-P
Mojca Ramsak Polygenesis Polygenesis is an explanation for the occurrence of similar cultural traits in different cultures. The hypothesis of polygenesis proposes that similar cultural items — such as artifacts, ideas, and customs — may arise ...
Donald Haase, 2008
9
Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past ...
In contrast to this model of monogenesis and diffusionism, Joseph Bédier (1864– 1938) and others ar- gued for polygenesis, the independent creation of similar tales in different places; polygenesis was a possible explanation that the Grimms  ...
Jan M. Ziolkowski, 2010
10
Psychology and Myth
Two principal explanations have been offered to explain multiple existence: polygenesis, and monogenesis and diffusion. Polygenesis According to the theory of polygenesis. the same item could have originated independently many times.
Robert Alan Segal, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POLYGENESIS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term polygenesis is used in the context of the following news items.
1
What is the history of the word 'hip'?
It is a textbook example of lexical polygenesis; there are many unproven explanations for hip's etymology. Some involve the body part (boots ... «OUPblog, Jun 15»
2
The Origins of Yiddish: Part Fir
In the second, “The Polygenesis of Western Yiddish — and the Monogenesis of Yiddish” (1997), he argued that while Western Yiddish split into ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Jul 14»
3
Many Species Or One?
The major players in this field start with Isaac La Peyrère, a French polymath who first proposed polygenesis to reconcile the limited number of ... «Science 2.0, Jul 14»
4
Originality is Not All That Original
The second is called polygenesis, which suggests that an original idea appears simultaneously in multiple persons and places because the ... «Huffington Post, Jul 14»
5
Review: Slavery and racism are subjects for higher education
Polygenesis, for instance, the notion that God had created multiple separate species of human beings, not just a single human race, was driven ... «Charleston Post Courier, Jan 14»
6
A Case For The Promotion Of Indigenous Languages
The Polygenesis school holds the view of parallel evolution. They hold that as humans evolved parallel in more than one location, each group ... «P.M. News, Jul 13»
7
Low life: There's no such thing as race — or is there?
... for mentioning the San people's buttocks in a tutorial or seminar unless in tacit support of biological racism, or worse still polygenesis. «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 13»
8
Images of Emancipation
... to verify his theory of polygenesis, the separate human origins of Africans and Europeans, and emphasize the relative lowliness of the former. «New York Times, Dec 12»
9
Ariya Astrobeat Arkestra – 'Towards Other Worlds' (First Word)
Hardly the most exotic of locations, Leeds however is home to a hotbed of polygenesis hybrid bands, whose musical allusions look to the far ... «God Is In The TV, Nov 12»
10
Various Artists 'Diablos Del Ritmo: The Colombian Melting Pot 1960 …
On the northern tip of Colombia's Caribbean facing coastline lies the polygenesis voracious port of Barranquilla, a magnet and “Mecca” for ... «God Is In The TV, Oct 12»

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