EUGENICS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 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)

Sense 1

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)

Derivation:

eugenic (pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced)