Definitions for eugenics

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eugenics eu·gen·ics

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IPA: /yuˈdʒɛn ɪks/

Eugenics is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in eugenics (ceeginsu).

Definitions for eugenics

noun

1. 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)

Origin of eugenics

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

Examples for eugenics

eugenics is a word that made everyone at the event uncomfortable.

It has been said that eugenics is futile because it cannot define its end.

I try so hard not to be afraid of men, for I know they are necessary to eugenics.

Watch a montage of his many references, from SS uniforms, to the Third Reich, to eugenics.

They may be bad for your work, but they are worse for eugenics.

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

The only compulsion we can apply in eugenics is the compulsion that comes from within.

It is here that the ideals of eugenics may be expected to work fruitfully.

It is a sin of our race that the eugenics Office should have bred out--but they have failed.

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