eugenicist
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- noun
- /juˈdʒɛnɪsɪst/
- Offensive
- Many eugenicists advocated for selective breeding to enhance the genetic traits of the population.
- many eugenicists
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Watch on YouTubeScaffolded eugenicists claim that social inequality originates in biology.
- Scaffolded eugenicists claim that social inequality originates in biology.
- Huxley's work is grounded in this real desire to make the world a better place, but at the same time, he was also a eugenicist.
- And I definitely got some trolls on social media as one does and you know, with the same sort of stuff, racist eugenicists.
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Franklin's claims foreshadow late nineteenth-century eugenicist arguments, especially as he describes the need for superior white beings in America (221).
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Though eugenicists did not all agree on the application of Mendel's ideas, his essay became one of the international movement's most influential texts.
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Now most American eugenicists ran away from it.
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Some still do, and that was at least in part because eugenicists had a lot of funding.
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All these eugenicists saying, "We have had a dramatic impact on Germany."
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Tell me about the meeting between Madison Grant and Whitney, another prominent eugenicist.
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Maher's eugenicist views are shared by many liberals and others who consider themselves to be part of the elite.
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Like so many eugenicists, Burroughs cannot differentiate between hereditary and environmental influences.
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Gregor Mendel's seminal study in plant hybridization, while independent of Darwinism, supplied eugenicists with a scientific foundation.
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Indeed, influential German eugenicists looked with envy at the gains wrought by U.S. eugenicists, especially state sterilization laws (Khl, 1994).
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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', meaning 'well-born'. So a eugenicist is a person who supports trying to improve future generations by selecting who has children or by using genetic ideas to change traits.