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Ethic vs Ethnic - What's the difference?

ethic | ethnic |

As adjectives the difference between ethic and ethnic

is that ethic is moral, relating to morals while ethnic is of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.

As nouns the difference between ethic and ethnic

is that ethic is a set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual while ethnic is an ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.

ethic

English

Alternative forms

* ethick (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Moral, relating to morals.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
    • I think the golden rule is a great ethic .
  • the morality of an action

    • Derived terms

    * ethic of reciprocity * evolutionary ethic * Protestant ethic * work ethic

    Related terms

    * ethical * ethics * ethos

    See also

    * ethic dative

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    ethnic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * ethnick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.
    • There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands
  • Belonging to a foreign culture.
    • I like to eat ethnic food
  • (historical) Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.

    • Derived terms

    * antiethnic * ethnic cleansing * ethnic group * ethnic minority

    Related terms

    * ethnicity * ethnically * ethnical * ethnicity * ethnocentric * ethnocultural * ethnography * ethnologeny * ethnology

    Synonyms

    * (culturally foreign) exotic * (heathen) pagan, gentile

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ethnic person, notably said when a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
  • An ethnic minority. (rfex)
  • (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
  • *
    • ..for the learned know that even in St. Jerome's time, the consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics , and about the same time the greatest part of the senate also...
  • * 1641 . .
    • ...And the people of God, redeemed and washed with Christ's blood, and dignified with so many glorious titles of saints and sons in the Gospel, are now no better reputed than impure ethnics and lay dogs...
  • (in classical scholarship ) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
  • * 2006 . Cohen. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin & North Africa , 151.
    • "Coinage with the ethnic ????????? ???? ???????? survives from the mid-second century A.D."

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