EUGENICS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("eugenics" is a kind of...):

bioscience; life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)

Antonym:

dysgenics (the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced)

Derivation:

eugenic (pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced)

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