Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The theory that all humans are descended from a single pair of ancestors.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The descent of the whole human race from a single pair. Also called monogeny.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anthropol.) The theory or doctrine that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species.
Examples
“Wasn't it about unilinealism or monogenism before?”
“Can the strict monogenism of the human race as traditionally understood by Christians, be modified to the scientific consensus that the human species originated in a small population, not a single couple?”
“The theory of monogenism-origin from a single source-held that all humans descended from a single pair of ancestors, Adam and Eve, and were therefore of the same species.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘monogenism’.
-
-ism's -logies
acosmism, absurdism, absolutism, ableism, aestheticism, alarmism, allotheism, anachronism, animalculism, analogism, animatism, animism and 464 more...
-
My List
A list of words that I have generated over time.
cairn, cacodaemoniacal, abash, abject, abjure, abstemious, abhor, abnegate, abnegation, abscond, abstruse, acclivity and 702 more...
-
C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for monogenism.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.