Definitions for euthenics

euthenics eu·then·ics

Spelling: [yoo-then-iks]
IPA: /yuˈθɛn ɪks/

Euthenics is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 382 anagrams from letters in euthenics (ceehinstu).

Definitions for euthenics

noun

  1. a science concerned with bettering the condition of human beings through the improvement of their environment.

Origin of euthenics

1900-05; Greek euthēn(eîn) to be well off, prosper + -ics

Examples for euthenics

It is, however, a phase of euthenics, which deals with the environmental factors that affect the individual life.

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

In this sense, euthenics and eugenics bear the same relation to human progress as a man's two legs do to his locomotion.

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

In another hundred years, then, euthenics may give place to Eugenics, and the better race of men become an actuality.

The moment of conception is the point at which eugenics gives place to euthenics.

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