[{"word":"polygenism","phonetic":"/pəˈlɪd͡ʒənɪzəm/","phonetics":[{"text":"/pəˈlɪd͡ʒənɪzəm/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"(ethnology) The belief that humans descended from more than one ancestral pair.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"2003: Such pigmental indelibility spelt polygenism for some: blacks formed a distinct species altogether, a separate creation. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 248)"}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/polygenism"]}]