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eugenic
[ yoo-jen-ik ]
adjective
- of or relating to measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the characteristics of the human species or a human population, especially through reproductive policy.
- having inherited characteristics that are seen as favorable for the purpose of producing or reproducing perceived improvements in the human species or a human population. Compare dysgenic.
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Other Words From
- eu·gen·i·cal·ly adverb
- non·eu·gen·ic adjective
- non·eu·gen·i·cal adjective
- non·eu·gen·i·cal·ly adverb
- un·eu·gen·ic adjective
- un·eu·gen·i·cal adjective
- un·eu·gen·i·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
While the victims of eugenics were generally poor, that wasn’t always the case.
The state passed a law in July to provide reparations for these women and the several hundred people sterilized during the eugenics era who are still living.
Later, eugenics and even ESP were for a time taken seriously by some “modern” scientists.
She operated at a time when eugenic arguments were very much in vogue, harnessed by both sides of the birth-control debate.
Mating determined by unconscious psychological motives instead of eugenic considerations.
Medicine and surgery—well, there's a huge program of compulsory sterilization, and another one of eugenic marriage-control.
Without love, all the efforts of all the Eugenic Societies on earth will accomplish little, however well-meant their efforts.
There was no ideal of sex-equality, and therefore Love was regarded as the least important requisite in Eugenic marriage.
There yet remains the eugenic inducement and, I believe, a personal one!
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