grouping vs ethnic group

ethnic group vs grouping

grouping and ethnic group both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grouping	Yes	No	No	No
ethnic group	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ethnic group is a hyponym of grouping; that is, ethnic group is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than grouping:

grouping: any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
ethnic group: people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture

Other hyponyms of grouping include human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world, arrangement, straggle, kingdom, biological group, biotic community, community, people, social group, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection, edition, electron shell, ethnos, race, association, cloud, swarm, subgroup, sainthood, citizenry, people, population, hoi polloi, mass, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed, varna, circuit, scheme, system, series, actinide, actinoid, actinon, lanthanide, lanthanoid, lanthanon, rare-earth element, rare earth, halogen, stellar association, mineral association.

grouping (noun)	ethnic group (noun)
any number of entities (members) considered as a unit	people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture
the activity of putting things together in groups
a system for classifying things into groups

Difference between grouping and ethnic group

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