eugenicist
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- adjective
- /juˈdʒɛnɪkɪst/
- Offensive
- Some early 20th-century policies were influenced by eugenicist thinking about genetics and society.
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Watch on YouTubeGalton's eugenicist ideas found fertile ground in America.
- Galton's eugenicist ideas found fertile ground in America.
- But to be clear, my point is not that any use of these techniques are eugenicist.
- He was staunchly in the nature camp, by the way, which drove his eugenicist beliefs about.
- I mean, keep in mind that that that my parents grew up at a point in time when there were these eugenicist ideas out there.
Examples
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The committee rejected the eugenicist proposal as unethical and discriminatory.
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The eugenicist theories of the early 20th century are controversial.
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Her eugenicist views were widely criticized by the scientific community.
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Many people view the ideas of a eugenicist as ethically problematic.
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The eugenicist policies of the early 20th century aimed to enhance the population's genetic quality.
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Many people found the eugenicist ideas about selective breeding highly controversial and ethically questionable.
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The scientist presented a eugenicist approach to genetics that focused on promoting traits considered advantageous.
Synonyms
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A person who supports breeding or ways to change genes to improve people
Surface Forms
Morphology
eugenicist = eugenic (semi-transparent) = eu + gen + ic + ist
The word is a regular -ist derivative of the specialized classical base eugenic, but that base is not semantically accessible to most learners.
Etymology
Eugenicist comes from the Greek parts eu- 'good' and genos 'birth' or 'family', which together mean 'well-born'. So a eugenicist idea describes trying to make the human population 'well-born' by choosing or changing who has children or which traits are passed on.