ethnicity

noun

eth·​nic·​i·​ty eth-ˈni-sə-tē 

plural ethnicities

1

: ethnic quality or affiliation

aspects of ethnicity

2

: a particular ethnic affiliation or group

students of diverse ethnicities

Synonyms of ethnicity

• nationality
• nation

Examples of ethnicity in a Sentence

a university with a student body of diverse ethnicities

Recent Examples on the Web

Sacramento County residents can now access real-time public health data through a new online dashboard that allows users to track health trends by age, location, race and ethnicity, county officials announced Tuesday. —Velvet Wu june 5, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2026

For now, let’s get to know these British brothers more, including their ethnicity and heritage. —Allison Degrushe, StyleCaster, 3 June 2026

Balancing datasets by collecting more representative images across age, gender and ethnicity, and frequently updating databases, can improve accuracy and produce fairer results. —Vijayan Asari, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

County demographics, including median household income, race/ethnicity and educational attainment, are from the Census. —New York Times, 2 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for ethnicity

• basicity
• chronicity
• complicity
• cyclicity
• duplicity
• facticity
• felicity
• helicity
• plasticity
• publicity
• rusticity
• simplicity