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noun (used with a singular verb)

the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics ) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics ).

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Origin of eugenics

First recorded in 1880–85; see origin at eugenic, -ics

Words nearby eugenics

eugarie, Eugene, Eugenia, eugenic, eugenicist, eugenics, Eugénie, Eugenius I, Eugenius II, Eugenius III, Eugenius IV

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Words related to eugenics

How to use eugenics in a sentence

  • So Gordin refers to it, and alchemy, and eugenics, as vestigial sciences — once regarded as totally scientific, but cast aside into the pseudoscience realm by the advance of knowledge.

  • Prominent conservationists in the 19th and 20th centuries at times endorsed abhorrent practices, such as eugenics.

  • This last argument has been the justification for all past attempts at eugenics.

  • Critics of Helen Keller cite her writings that reflected the popularity of now-dated eugenics theories and her friendship with one of the movement's supporters Alexander Graham Bell.

  • As I argued recently in Nautilus, there is an illusion that's long plagued science—linked to the eugenics movement and the ideas of Francis Galton, the founder of Nature—that objectivity in statistical analysis confers objectivity in interpretation.

  • The attempt to "breed back" the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.

  • Eugenics is a word that made everyone at the event uncomfortable.

  • Therefore, we can at least infer that the people of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes did not have a rigorous eugenics program like Sparta.

  • Why the sterilization and eugenics programs are running in different countries in one way or another under the umbrella of UNO.

  • The very subject evokes dark visions of forced sterilization and the eugenics horrors of the early 20th century.

  • You might therefore consider it, in some sense, a story of eugenics, but that its outlook is emotional rather than scientific.

  • It has already been gone into in detail in the article on eugenics.

  • One of the things about which we know almost nothing at present is the subject of eugenics.

  • Euthenics precedes eugenics, developing better men now, and thus inevitably creating a better race of men in the future.

  • Euthenics is the term proposed for the preliminary science on which Eugenics must be based.

British Dictionary definitions for eugenics

noun

(functioning as singular) the study of methods of improving the quality of the human race, esp by selective breeding

Derived forms of eugenics

eugenic, adjective eugenically, adverb eugenicist, noun eugenist (ˈjuːdʒənɪst), noun, adjective

Word Origin for eugenics

C19: from Greek eugenēs well-born, from eu- + -genēs born; see -gen

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Medical definitions for eugenics

n.

The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

Cultural definitions for eugenics

The idea that one can improve the human race by careful selection of those who mate and produce offspring.

notes for eugenics

Eugenics was a popular theory in the early twentieth century but is no longer taken seriously, primarily because of the horrors of the eugenic efforts of the Nazi regime in Germany.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Eugenics Definition Words in a Sentence

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