caucasoid

• Terme daté et largement tombé en désuétude issu de l'anthropologie raciale du XIXe siècle, désignant un prétendu groupe racial « caucasique ». Il est considéré comme scientifiquement obsolète et socialement inacceptable dans le contexte moderne.

An outdated and now largely disused term from 19th-century racial anthropology, referring to a supposed 'Caucasian' racial grouping.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   Pertaining to a historical and now largely outdated racial grouping that includes people from Europe, North Africa, and parts of Asia.

   caucasoïde (classification raciale)

   • The term 'Caucasoid' was used in outdated anthropological studies.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.

   Synonymescaucasiancaucasic

   Antonymesmongoloidnegroid