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race feeling en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of German Rassengefühl, from Rasse (“race”) + Gefühl (“feeling”).

Meanings

1. (historical) Love of one's own race, or hatred of other races.
   • We cannot help fearing that the opportunity is being taken to make capital out of race feeling by nursing it into race antipathies. 1885 August 10, “Race Differences”, in The Montreal Daily Witness, page 4:
   • His race feeling is so strong that he seems to prefer Islam when taught by blacks to Christianity when brought by whites 1888 September, George Lansing Taylor, “The New Africa:—III. Its Destiny”, in Methodist Review, page 704:
   • there is what is called the race feeling, by which is meant the natural antipathy between races of different coloured skins—a feeling which, however manifestly unreasonable, is difficult to overcome. 1879, Monier Williams, Modern Indian and the Indians, Being a Series of Impressions, Notes, and Essays, 3rd edition, London: Trübner and Co., Ludgate Hill, page 176:

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Synonyms

racial feeling