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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating) [ant: dysgenics ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ After the Second World War, eugenics was superseded by genetics and micro-biology. ▪ By the late Thirties, eugenics was waning. ▪ In the United States eugenics became almost completely discredited. ▪ Ironically, some eugenics ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"doctrine of progress in evolution of the human race, race-culture," 1883, coined (along with adjective eugenic ) by English scientist Francis Galton (1822-1911) on analogy of ethics , physics , etc. from Greek eugenes "well-born, of good stock, of noble ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Eugenics (; from Greek εὐγενής eugenes "well-born" from εὖ eu , "good, well" and γένος genos , "race, stock, kin") is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population . It is a social philosophy advocating ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eugenics \Eu*gen"ics\, n. The science of improving stock, whether human or animal. --F. Galton.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology English) The science of improving stock, whether human or animal. 2 (context philosophy English) A social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding.

Usage examples of eugenics.

The most prestigious scientific institute in Germany, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics, and Eugenics, the German Research Council, and their extensive biomedical and Eugenics research programs, had no qualms about the killing of so-called inferior and polluted races.

Science has its fads and crazes, like anything else: string theory, eugenics, mesmerism.

Jukes, Nams, Kallikaks, Zeros, Dacks, Ishmaels, Sixties, Hickories, Hill Folk, Piney Folk, and the rest, with which the readers of the literature of restrictive eugenics are familiar.

Although the existence of the Eugenics Wars was well-known by the twenty-third century, most citizens of the late twentieth century were not even aware of the global struggle against Khan and his fellow supermen, seeing only scattered brushfire wars and random acts of terrorism.

A eugenics offshoot propounded by a disgraced and outlawed society whose hope of giving humankind an artificial boost up the ladder of evolution had been met with outrage, approbation, and brutal censure.

First, despite the construction of Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, despite the efforts at universities and the pleadings of lawyers, there was no scientific basis for eugenics.

The eyes of the interviewers glazed over as the putative lovebirds discussed assortative mating, the differentiation between penetrance and expres­sivity on the one hand and dominance and epistasis on the other, and the uncertainty of positive eugenics.

When challenged by ethicists who see the stalking horse of the extensive eugenics program and other Nazi medical experiments meant to create an unblemished master Aryan race, the smiling, suited thugs say, "Our moral responsibility is also to take care of our jobs and well-being.

It was a term she was unfamiliar with, 'ethnic cleansing', but then Kevin showed her what it meant, and she was sickened by the images, realizing that this was the precursor to the Eugenics Wars of five decades later, in which over a billion people would die!

Their eye-hand coordination was impressive (maybe the Eugenics Council had done something right).

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Something the Meliorates with their scattershot approach to eugenics did not themselves foresee.

And this thought, taken out of context, without the later disclaimers, culminated in the Nazi pogroms of eradication of the Jews, and the eugenics plan designed to bring forth a thousand years of Aryan supermen.

Long ago and far away before that damned Eugenics Board ruling, I was planning to have Sheena take hyper-baric oxygen therapy during the pregnancy .

So two things happen: people who've been barred by a eugenics board, feeling they've been unjustly deprived, hide their sour-grapes pose behind a mask of self-righteousness - and a lot of people who can't face the responsibility of raising prodgies seize on this as an excuse to copy them.