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Mink'a
Mink'a, also written minka and regionally called minga, is a Quechua term for communal reciprocal work, such as harvesting or building homes, still practiced across the Andes.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI, MMPI-2, MMPI-3) is an empirically keyed true-false personality and psychopathology test published by University of Minnesota Press since 1943, with 567-item MMPI-2 (1989) and 335-item MMPI-3 (2020) editions used in clinical, forensic, and public safety assessment.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) is a 567-item true/false self-report test measuring adult personality and psychopathology, described as the most widely used personality test in psychological practice.
Minority group
Minority group: sociological concept defined by subordinate power rather than numbers, from Wirth's 1945 definition to UN legal protections, types, and contested usage.
Miryang Park clan
The Miryang Park clan (밀양 박씨) is a Korean clan whose ancestral seat is Miryang, the largest Park clan with about 3.1 million members in 2015.
Misandry
Misandry is hatred, dislike, or mistrust of men, coined 1875–80 on the model of misogyny. The article covers its definition, the empirical "misandry myth" research on feminists' attitudes, manosphere usage, ironic feminist usage, and the structural-power symmetry debate.
Misanthropy
Misanthropy, from Greek misanthropia, is hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind in general. Covers its ancient medical history, philosophical forms (Kidd, Kant, Schopenhauer), psychological measurement, and distinction from depression, cynicism, and social anxiety.
Miscegenation
Miscegenation: pejorative term for interracial marriage and sex, coined in an 1863 hoax pamphlet from Latin miscere and genus; also the label for US anti-miscegenation laws struck down by Loving v. Virginia in 1967.
Miser
Miser: a derogatory English noun for a person who hoards money and spends as little as possible, from Latin miser 'wretched'; attested 1540s, money sense by 1560s; distinct from frugality.
Mishar Tatars (мишәр)
Mishar Tatars (мишәр) are a Volga-Ural Tatar subethnos speaking Tatar's western dialect, concentrated historically around Nizhny Novgorod and Meshchera, with debated origins traced to Burtas, Khazars, Kipchaks, or Mozhars and a Baltic diaspora.
Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season
Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season: false claims around Hurricanes Helene and Milton, including weather-modification conspiracies, FEMA diversion rumors, and political amplification, debunked by NOAA, PolitiFact, and FactCheck.org.
Misinformation about violence by transgender people
Misinformation about violence by transgender people: false claims of rising transgender mass shooters, contradicted by Gun Violence Archive data (five such shootings since 2013) and NCVS victimization data showing transgender people are over four times more likely to be victims.
Miskito people
Miskito (Miskitu) people of the Mosquito Coast of eastern Honduras and Nicaragua; Afro-Indigenous people of the historic Miskitu Kingdom, now the region's largest Indigenous population, with autonomy struggles, lobster diving livelihoods, and land-rights conflicts.
Misogynoir
Misogynoir is the anti-Black racist misogyny directed at Black women, a term coined by Moya Bailey in 2008, a portmanteau of misogyny and noir, added to Merriam-Webster in 2023.
Misogyny
Misogyny (from Greek misos, hatred, and gyne, woman) is hostility toward women; contrasted with sexism as ideology, studied via Kate Manne's enforcement account, ambivalent sexism, structural and online forms.
Miss Cosmo 2024
Miss Cosmo 2024 was the inaugural Miss Cosmo beauty pageant, held in Vietnam and won by Indonesia's Ketut Permata Juliastrid, with Thailand's Mook Karnruethai Tassabut as runner-up; the Grand Finale took place October 5, 2024, in Ho Chi Minh City.
Miss Earth 2024
Miss Earth 2024, the 24th edition of the Philippines-based environmental beauty pageant, was won on November 9, 2024 at Okada Manila by Australia's Jessica Lane, with Iceland, USA, and Peru taking the elemental Air, Water, and Fire titles.
Miss France 2026
Miss France 2026, the 96th edition held 6 December 2025 at the Zénith d'Amiens, was won by Hinaupoko Devèze, Miss Tahiti 2025, succeeding Angélique Angarni-Filopon; the public vote decided a tied final before 6.7 million TF1 viewers.
Miss International 2026
Miss International 2026 is the 64th edition of the Japan-based international beauty pageant founded in 1960 in Long Beach, California. Delegates from over 70 countries and regions compete; Catalina Duque of the 2025 edition is the reigning titleholder.
Miss South Africa 2026
Miss South Africa 2026 is the annual pageant's New Era edition: entries ran 28 April to 17 May 2026, a Top 24 and Top 19 were selected, and the finale is set for 14 November 2026 at Sandton Convention Centre.
Miss Supranational 2026
Miss Supranational 2026, the 17th edition held in Nowy Sącz, Poland, was won by Katrina Llegado of the Philippines, the second Filipina titleholder after Mutya Datul (2013), under new eligibility rules.
Miss Teen International 2026
Miss Teen International 2026: the Glamanand-run teen pageant edition won by Cuba's Jhoanna Uranga in Jaipur, India, on August 31, 2026; Namibia's Chantel Boeren was first runner-up. Distinct US and Ecuadorian pageants share the same name.
Miss Universe Philippines 2026
Miss Universe Philippines 2026, the national pageant won by Bea Millan-Windorski of La Union on May 2, 2026 at the Mall of Asia Arena, selected the Philippine delegate to Miss Universe 2026, succeeding Ahtisa Manalo.
Miss Universe Thailand 2024
Miss Universe Thailand 2024 was the national pageant held in Thailand on July 14, 2024, won by Opal Suchata Chuangsri of Bangkok before 40 contestants.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW, MMIWG, MMIWG2S, MMIP): the crisis of disproportionate violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Two-Spirit people in North America, marked by Canada's 2016-2019 national inquiry and 231 Calls for Justice, U.S. legislation such as Savanna's Act, and red dress advocacy.
Missing person
Missing person: a person whose whereabouts are unknown or unexplained to family, social, or work environments. Covers definitions, US NCIC and NamUs databases, ICMP identification work, risk assessment, and data limitations.
Missing scientists conspiracy theory
Missing scientists conspiracy theory: claim since 2022, viral in 2026, that NASA and Los Alamos-linked scientists died or vanished in a coordinated plot; fact-checkers found no connection.
Missing stair
Missing stair: metaphor coined by Cliff Jerrison (Cliff Pervocracy) in a June 22, 2012 blog post for a known harmful person a community quietly works around instead of fixing, so newcomers get hurt.
Missing white woman syndrome
Missing white woman syndrome, coined by Gwen Ifill in 2004, describes US media's disproportionate coverage of missing young white women versus people of color, confirmed empirically by Sommers's 2016 study.
Missionary position
Missionary position: face-to-face sex position with the penetrating partner on top. Term attested by 1963, coined via Kinsey's 1948 reading of Malinowski; the missionary-origin story is undocumented.