Synonyms of miscegenation

miscegenation

noun

as in marriage

formal sexual relations or marital union between people of two different races

laws that once criminalized miscegenation

Synonyms & Similar Words

• marriage
• intermarriage
• remarriage
• matrimony
• wedlock
• commitment
• proposal
• mixed marriage
• monogamy
• polygamy
• engagement
• bigamy
• conjugality
• cohabitation
• polygyny
• polyandry
• connubiality
• promise
• match
• relationship
• polyamory
• domestic partnership
• civil union
• pledge
• common-law marriage
• attachment
• betrothal
• espousal
• troth
• hand

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• separation
• divorce
• annulment

Examples of miscegenation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Because of the fears of miscegenation in the early 20th century scholars had a strong bias toward finding the data to confirm the assumption that admixture between divergent human kinds resulted in a breakdown and depression in trait value in relation to both parental lineages. —Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011

Alice is Asian, and the couple's union violates Montana's miscegenation laws. —Matt Cabral, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023

The court also upheld miscegenation laws 9–0 in the 1883 case Pace v. Alabama. —Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2023

Cameron is dedicated to F/X, advancing Avatar’s loathing of the U.S. military to new perversion: the genuine fascination/fetishization of white–blue miscegenation. —Armond White, National Review, 21 Dec. 2022