out-group


out·group

or out-group O5177300 (out′gro͞op′)n.1. A group of people excluded from or not belonging to one's own group, especially when viewed as subordinate or contemptibly different.2. A group of organisms not part of the group under consideration, used for comparison when analyzing phylogenetic relationships.

out-group

n (Sociology) sociol persons excluded from an in-group

out′-group`



n. a group outside one's own with which one feels no sense of identity. Compare in-group. [1905–10]