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say it: eth-NIS-i-tee
ethnicity is a noun meaning "an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties". It carries one recorded sense.
an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties
“ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ethnicity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.