ethnogenesis

From ethno- +‎ -genesis. While attested incidentally before the twentieth century, it gained currency particularly in the postwar era as a scholarly concept.

• enPR: ĕth′nō-jĕn′ĭ-sĭs
• Hyphenation: eth‧no‧gen‧e‧sis

ethnogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural ethnogeneses)

2. The emergence of a distinct, recognizable, ethnic identity.

• ethnogenetic
• ethnogeny

• “ethnogenesis”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “ethnogenesis”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.