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eugenically

eugenically

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In a way that tries to improve people's genes
  • adverb
  • /juˈdʒɛnɪkli/
  • Offensive
: eugenésicamente
  • The scientist presented a paper on how society could evolve by eugenically optimizing genetic traits in humans.

Examples

  • Parents often consider eugenically beneficial traits when selecting a partner to ensure healthier children.

  • For a while, the Japanese state even encouraged upper-class men to marry Western women in order to incorporate their traits and produce eugenically "superior" Japanese children (Kamoto 2001).

    Academic text (2007)

  • " THERE IS NO RACE WHICH is so subject to diabetes as the Jews," wrote W. H. Thomas in 1904 in the eugenically obsessed language of his day.

    Academic text (2011)

  • A century from now, it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

    Blog text (23)

  • Some researchers conducted studies to determine how eugenically improving one's genes might affect future generations.

Surface Forms

eugenically positive

Morphology

eugenically = eugenic (transparent) = eugenic + ally

Formed by a regular adverbial derivation from the adjective 'eugenic' using '-ally'; the meaning is directly derived from the adjective.

Etymology

Eugenically comes from Greek parts eu- meaning 'good' and gen- meaning 'birth' or 'origin', so it literally means 'good birth'. So to act eugenically is to try to improve the traits people pass on, which connects the word to familiar terms like gene and genetic.