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DYSGENICS

Dictionary entry overview: What does dysgenics mean?

• DYSGENICS (noun)
The noun DYSGENICS has 1 sense:

1. the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced

Familiarity information: DYSGENICS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DYSGENICS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

cacogenics; dysgenics

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

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

Antonym:

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

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