pure-blood
No outside ancestry
Pure-blood describes ancestry without mixture from other lineages—typically within discussions of animal breeding or, more troublingly, human racial ideology.
A pure-blood horse or dog has documented lineage within a single breed.
Applied to humans, the term carries associations with racist ideology and eugenic thinking.
In the Harry Potter universe, pure-blood wizards claim magical ancestry untainted by non-magical ("Muggle") heritage, a distinction the books critique as bigotry.
Family line of descent
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- descentDownward slope or lineage
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
forebears · progenitors · pedigree · family · clan · kinship · inheritance · legacy
Rule by hereditary elite
- nobilityTitled ruling class
- bluebloodPerson of noble birth
- patricianHighborn Roman elite
- gentryHighborn but not noble
snobbery · exclusivity · privilege · superiority · haughtiness · classism · entitlement · arrogance
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- segregationForced separation by group
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
intolerance · prejudice · casteism · apartheid · ethnocentrism · marginalization · oppression · scapegoating
Completely unmixed, genuine
- unmixedNot combined together
- uncontaminatedFree from impurities
- untaintedFree from contamination
- undilutedNot mixed with anything
unsullied · authentic · genuine · unblemished · pristine · wholesome · uncorrupted · unalloyed
ancestry
Family line of descent
dynasty · forebears · progenitors · pedigree · family · clan · kinship · inheritance · legacy · birthright
aristocracy
Rule by hereditary elite
gentry · snobbery · exclusivity · privilege · superiority · haughtiness · classism · entitlement · arrogance · caste
racism
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- segregationForced separation by group
exclusion · intolerance · prejudice · casteism · apartheid · ethnocentrism · marginalization · oppression · scapegoating · stigma
unadulterated
Completely unmixed, genuine
- unmixedNot combined together
- uncontaminatedFree from impurities
- untaintedFree from contamination
undiluted · unsullied · authentic · genuine · unblemished · pristine · wholesome · uncorrupted · unalloyed
pure-bloodmixed-blood
Of multiracial ancestry
half-blood · mongrel · mutt · crossbreed · hybrid