demographic
noun · adjective
Simple meaning
A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
dɛməɡˈɹæfɪk
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Definition
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noun
chiefly in the plural
A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.
adjective
Of or relating to demography
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B1 · Intermediate (estimated)
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Typical Use
- General and technical use
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This meaning: A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
Used this way, demographic is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use demographic
- “We need to understand the demographic changes in the local population.”
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Word family
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The branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations.
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