caucasoid

• Veralteter und weitgehend ungebräuchlicher Begriff aus der Rassenanthropologie des 19. Jahrhunderts für eine angenommene „kaukasische“ Rassengruppe. Gilt im heutigen Kontext als wissenschaftlich überholt und sozial inakzeptabel.

An outdated and now largely disused term from 19th-century racial anthropology, referring to a supposed 'Caucasian' racial grouping. It is considered scientifically obsolete and socially inappropriate in modern contexts.

1. Relating to a racial classificationC1formal

   Pertaining to a historical and now largely outdated racial grouping that includes people from Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia.

   Bezug auf eine Rassenklassifikation

   • The term 'Caucasoid' was used in outdated anthropological studies.
   • Historically, the Caucasoid classification was applied to many European populations.
   • Modern science has largely abandoned the concept of distinct racial types like Caucasoid.

   Synonymecaucasiancaucasic

   Antonymemongoloidnegroid