EUGENICS
Dictionary entry overview: What does eugenics mean? • EUGENICS (noun)
The noun EUGENICS has 1 sense:
1. the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)
Familiarity information: EUGENICS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EUGENICS (noun)
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)
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