mongrelizationn.
/ˌmʌŋɡrəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌmʌŋɡrl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌmɒŋɡrəlʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, /ˌmɒŋɡrl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmɑŋɡrələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌməŋɡrələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌməŋɡrəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmɑŋɡrəˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action of making mongrel in type, composition, character, etc. Also in extended use.Now usually considered offensive when used with reference to people or ethnic groups.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > action or fact of mixing > of incongruous elements
bastardization1650
mongrelization1868
hybridization1960
1868 De Bow's Rev. Mar. 255 The repeal of laws prohibiting the admixture or intermarriage of the races, should that result in mongrelization (and that and nothing else is the object) would be far more fatal and monstrous.
1889 H. Campbell Causation Dis. x. 76 Hybridization or mongrelization of disease.
1920 R. R. Marett Psychol. & Folk-lore x. 235 Mongrelization has set in.
1964 Economist 11 July 138/2 The mongrelisation of the races.
1995 Wire Jan. 35/3 The most thrilling hybrids were concocted in and around Jungle, itself a bastard genre based around mutation and mongrelization.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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