Ethnic vs. Heathen — What's the Difference?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a group of people sharing a common cultural or national heritage and often sharing a common language or religion.

A person who does not belong to a widely held religion (especially one who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim) as regarded by those who do

Being a member of a particular ethnic group, especially belonging to a national group by heritage or culture but residing outside its national boundaries

Relating to heathens

Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group

An adherent of a religion that does not worship the God of Judaism, Christianity, or Islam.

(Archaic) Relating to a people not Christian or Jewish.

Such persons considered as a group.

A member of a particular ethnic group, especially one who maintains the language or customs of the group.

Heathen An adherent of a Neopagan religion that seeks to revive the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Germanic peoples.

Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.

One who is regarded as irreligious, uncivilized, or unenlightened.

Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.

Such persons considered as a group.

Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.

Not adhering to the Christian religion (though usually excluding the Jews); pagan.

(historical) Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.

(by extension) Uncultured; uncivilized; savage, philistine.

An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.

Alternative case form of Heathen.

(archaic) A heathen, a pagan.

A person who does not follow a Christian religion; a pagan.

(in classical scholarship) The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.

(by extension) An uncultured or uncivilized person, philistine.

Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.

Alternative case form of Heathen.

Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; - opposed to Jewish and Christian.

An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

Of or pertaining to a group having a distinct racial, cultural, religious or linguistic character; as, ethnic differences within a population can cause civil war.

An irreligious person.

Being a member of a distinct racial or cultural minority within a larger population; as, ethnic Chinese own most of the businesses in Indonesia.

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.

A heathen; a pagan.

Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.

A member of an ethnic group.

Irreligious; scoffing.

Denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people;

A person who does not acknowledge your God

Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

Not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam