eugenics
pronunciation
How to pronounce eugenics in British English:
UK [ju:ˈdʒenɪks]
How to pronounce eugenics in American English:
US [juˈdʒɛnɪks]
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- Noun:
- the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)
Word Origin
- eugenics (n.)
- "doctrine of progress in evolution of the human race, race-culture," 1883, coined (along with adjective eugenic) by English scientist Francis Galton (1822-1911) on analogy of ethics, physics, etc. from Greek eugenes "well-born, of good stock, of noble race," from eu- "good" (see eu-) + genos "birth" (see genus). The investigation of human eugenics, that is, of the conditions under which men of a high type are produced. [Galton, "Human Faculty," 1883]
Example
- 1. Eugenics , these days , is a dirty word .
- 2. Needless to say , murtaugh and schlax are not advocating eugenics .
- 3. While he enjoyed the job , he apparently had way too much spare time to think about non-physics related things . Like eugenics .
- 4. People must be prepared for this possibility , and ready to resist the excesses of racialism , nationalism and eugenics that some are bound to propose in response .
- 5. Whenever biology meets behaviour the spectre of social darwinism and eugenics looms menacingly in the background .