# bastardism

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The condition of being born out of wedlock; bastardy.
2. A tendency to produce bastards; lack of chastity.
3. Racial impurity; that state or quality of being mixed-race.
4. Sexual reproduction involving different species.
5. An unnatural combination; a mixture of things that do not belong together.
6. Ideological concern with whether someone is related by blood.
7. An act or quality of being bastardly; contemptibleness, cruelty, or lack of proper behavior.

## Etymology
From bastard + -ism.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bastardism