eugenics
A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary…A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.
» Prison is a form of eugenics.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.
Eugenik, Eugenetik, Rassenhygiene
евгеникаjevgenika
євгенікаjevhenika
the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)
Examples
9 sentencesPrison is a form of eugenics.
The poverty is state-mandated eugenics.
The opioid epidemic is intentional, a form of eugenics.
If you participate in genocide or eugenics you will be castrated.
Tom worried that warfare was really a form of eugenics secretly agreed upon by opposing rulers.
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Origin
Coined by Francis Galton in 1883. From ἐΰς (eǘs, “good”) + γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “breeding”)Coined by Francis Galton in 1883. From ἐΰς (eǘs, “good”) + γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “breeding”), “well-bred”, “good in stock”. Parallel to Eugene. By surface analysis, eugenic + -s.
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