Miscegenation vs. Miscegeny — What's the Difference?

Miscegenation () is the interbreeding of people who are considered to be members of different races. Anonymous authors invented the word in an 1863 fraudulent political pamphlet, indicating that miscegenation meant interracial marriage and interracial sexual relations, particularly between "...

(rare) Miscegenation.

Cohabitation, sexual relations, marriage, or interbreeding involving persons of different races, especially in historical contexts as a transgression of the law.

The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.

(figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.

A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)