Definition of eugenics in English:

eugenics

plural nounjuːˈdʒɛnɪksjuˈdʒɛnɪks

treated as singular The science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.
Example sentencesExamples
- Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form.
- Once you've got regulated breeding, it's a short skip to selective breeding - eugenics.
- Although critics insist that eugenics was based on bad science, they often ignore the link to evolution.
- He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood.
- After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
- Just to stop us getting too excited, we were cautioned by stories of eugenics and mutant pigs.
- Racism and eugenics were very popular among Leftists in Hitler's day.
- And as you know eugenics is defined as the science of improving the qualities of the human race.
- As the explosion in genetic research continued, the temptation of eugenics grew ever more alluring.
- He believes the history of eugenics is the history of government out of control, not geneticists.
- Not today, anyway, though there have been times when it has: social Darwinism and eugenics made claims like that.
- In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics.
- It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and eugenics.
- A world not only of eugenics, but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction.
- His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans.
- Not only was eugenics said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture.
- An example is the notion of eugenics, a painful memory in the history of science.
- In the United States in recent years, interest in eugenics has centered around genetic screening.
- But the origin of eugenics was simply a desire to increase the odds that a child would be born healthy.
- It was a drastic form of eugenics, a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects.

Derivatives

eugenic

adjective juːˈdʒɛnɪkjuˈdʒɛnɪk

The Nazis were hardly prudes on matters sexual, and their eugenic obsessions prompted a liberal code of rules and mores on procreation.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Eugenics Review reflected the broad cross-section of eugenic interpretations of demography and degeneration.
- As more people can derive benefits from the use of genetic information to guide reproductive decisions eugenic practices will become very widespread.
- The eugenic and Social Darwinism programs are morally repugnant, but seem to be based on Darwinian evolutionary facts.
- For people such as Fisher, who was a leading figure in the American eugenics movement, the eugenic program of race improvement was the central concern.

eugenically

adverb

Early-twentieth-century uneasiness about lower-class whites overpopulating the nation led to a panicked organization of public and private research which could eugenically chart lines of white families.
Example sentencesExamples
- The outdoors, he concluded, would eugenically inoculate boy children against the evils of over-sophistication and effeminacy as they grew.
- In the former, the exhausted, unnamed protagonist is offered two weeks in the country with her six young children, compliments of the eugenically named Social Betterment Society.
- From this soil bed will grow an intentionally wild, uncultivated mix of vegetation - a symbolic counter to the Nazi dream of a homogeneous, eugenically bred German race.
- And a 1916 feature film even encouraged people to marry eugenically and kill their defective offspring.

eugenicist

adjective & nounjuːˈdʒɛnɪsɪstjuˈdʒɛnəsəst

The eugenicists believed Mendelian laws governed the heredity of human physiological traits and social traits.
Example sentencesExamples
- After the war eugenicists started to use different names because the term eugenics became unacceptable.
- For ordinary, healthy Germans the eugenicist vision of the regenerated nation foundered on the realities of a war which left the country in ruins.
- We know that social Darwinists and eugenicists in the past have drawn on, and perhaps been inspired by, evolutionary biology.
- He has gathered many documents - letters by leading eugenicists, publications of eugenics associations, and records of institutions for the mentally retarded - that historians had already found and interpreted.

eugenist

noun & adjective ˈjuːdʒɪnɪst

To propagate this message, eugenists were instrumental in developing tests for ‘racial fitness’, primarily intelligence tests.
Example sentencesExamples
- She was a committed eugenist, and the name of her organization - the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress - clearly stated her racialist position.
- The eugenists wanted to shift the birth control emphasis from less children for the poor to more children for the rich.
- Social reformers, doctors and eugenists documented the harm they believed wage-earning mothers inflicted on babies and children.
- In the US and elsewhere, however, other eugenists were extremely cautious about the question of birth control.

Definition of eugenics in US English:

eugenics

plural nounjuˈdʒɛnɪksyo͞oˈjeniks

treated as singular The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.
优生学
Example sentencesExamples
- Just to stop us getting too excited, we were cautioned by stories of eugenics and mutant pigs.
- Once you've got regulated breeding, it's a short skip to selective breeding - eugenics.
- He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood.
- In the United States in recent years, interest in eugenics has centered around genetic screening.
- Although critics insist that eugenics was based on bad science, they often ignore the link to evolution.
- It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and eugenics.
- It was a drastic form of eugenics, a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects.
- Not today, anyway, though there have been times when it has: social Darwinism and eugenics made claims like that.
- A world not only of eugenics, but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction.
- An example is the notion of eugenics, a painful memory in the history of science.
- But the origin of eugenics was simply a desire to increase the odds that a child would be born healthy.
- As the explosion in genetic research continued, the temptation of eugenics grew ever more alluring.
- Racism and eugenics were very popular among Leftists in Hitler's day.
- His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans.
- Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form.
- And as you know eugenics is defined as the science of improving the qualities of the human race.
- He believes the history of eugenics is the history of government out of control, not geneticists.
- Not only was eugenics said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture.
- After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics.
- In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics.

单词	eugenics
释义	Definition of eugenics in English: eugenics plural nounjuːˈdʒɛnɪksjuˈdʒɛnɪks treated as singular The science of improving a population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Example sentencesExamples Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form. Once you've got regulated breeding, it's a short skip to selective breeding - eugenics. Although critics insist that eugenics was based on bad science, they often ignore the link to evolution. He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood. After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics. Just to stop us getting too excited, we were cautioned by stories of eugenics and mutant pigs. Racism and eugenics were very popular among Leftists in Hitler's day. And as you know eugenics is defined as the science of improving the qualities of the human race. As the explosion in genetic research continued, the temptation of eugenics grew ever more alluring. He believes the history of eugenics is the history of government out of control, not geneticists. Not today, anyway, though there have been times when it has: social Darwinism and eugenics made claims like that. In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics. It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and eugenics. A world not only of eugenics, but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction. His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans. Not only was eugenics said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture. An example is the notion of eugenics, a painful memory in the history of science. In the United States in recent years, interest in eugenics has centered around genetic screening. But the origin of eugenics was simply a desire to increase the odds that a child would be born healthy. It was a drastic form of eugenics, a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects. Derivatives eugenic adjective juːˈdʒɛnɪkjuˈdʒɛnɪk The Nazis were hardly prudes on matters sexual, and their eugenic obsessions prompted a liberal code of rules and mores on procreation. Example sentencesExamples The Eugenics Review reflected the broad cross-section of eugenic interpretations of demography and degeneration. As more people can derive benefits from the use of genetic information to guide reproductive decisions eugenic practices will become very widespread. The eugenic and Social Darwinism programs are morally repugnant, but seem to be based on Darwinian evolutionary facts. For people such as Fisher, who was a leading figure in the American eugenics movement, the eugenic program of race improvement was the central concern. eugenically adverb Early-twentieth-century uneasiness about lower-class whites overpopulating the nation led to a panicked organization of public and private research which could eugenically chart lines of white families. Example sentencesExamples The outdoors, he concluded, would eugenically inoculate boy children against the evils of over-sophistication and effeminacy as they grew. In the former, the exhausted, unnamed protagonist is offered two weeks in the country with her six young children, compliments of the eugenically named Social Betterment Society. From this soil bed will grow an intentionally wild, uncultivated mix of vegetation - a symbolic counter to the Nazi dream of a homogeneous, eugenically bred German race. And a 1916 feature film even encouraged people to marry eugenically and kill their defective offspring. eugenicist adjective & nounjuːˈdʒɛnɪsɪstjuˈdʒɛnəsəst The eugenicists believed Mendelian laws governed the heredity of human physiological traits and social traits. Example sentencesExamples After the war eugenicists started to use different names because the term eugenics became unacceptable. For ordinary, healthy Germans the eugenicist vision of the regenerated nation foundered on the realities of a war which left the country in ruins. We know that social Darwinists and eugenicists in the past have drawn on, and perhaps been inspired by, evolutionary biology. He has gathered many documents - letters by leading eugenicists, publications of eugenics associations, and records of institutions for the mentally retarded - that historians had already found and interpreted. eugenist noun & adjective ˈjuːdʒɪnɪst To propagate this message, eugenists were instrumental in developing tests for ‘racial fitness’, primarily intelligence tests. Example sentencesExamples She was a committed eugenist, and the name of her organization - the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress - clearly stated her racialist position. The eugenists wanted to shift the birth control emphasis from less children for the poor to more children for the rich. Social reformers, doctors and eugenists documented the harm they believed wage-earning mothers inflicted on babies and children. In the US and elsewhere, however, other eugenists were extremely cautious about the question of birth control. Definition of eugenics in US English: eugenics plural nounjuˈdʒɛnɪksyo͞oˈjeniks treated as singular The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis. 优生学 Example sentencesExamples Just to stop us getting too excited, we were cautioned by stories of eugenics and mutant pigs. Once you've got regulated breeding, it's a short skip to selective breeding - eugenics. He devoted the latter part of his life to eugenics, i.e. improving the physical and mental makeup of the human species by selected parenthood. In the United States in recent years, interest in eugenics has centered around genetic screening. Although critics insist that eugenics was based on bad science, they often ignore the link to evolution. It is easy to criticise the premarital medical examination on grounds of human rights, control, oppression, and eugenics. It was a drastic form of eugenics, a desire to improve the race by eliminating genetic defects. Not today, anyway, though there have been times when it has: social Darwinism and eugenics made claims like that. A world not only of eugenics, but also of tight government control over all aspects of human reproduction. An example is the notion of eugenics, a painful memory in the history of science. But the origin of eugenics was simply a desire to increase the odds that a child would be born healthy. As the explosion in genetic research continued, the temptation of eugenics grew ever more alluring. Racism and eugenics were very popular among Leftists in Hitler's day. His enduring fame, or infamy, rests on eugenics, which means, crudely, the selective breeding of humans. Clearly, contemporary views of heritability are populist market eugenics in a new form. And as you know eugenics is defined as the science of improving the qualities of the human race. He believes the history of eugenics is the history of government out of control, not geneticists. Not only was eugenics said to be good science, it was also supported by Scripture. After World War I they were less sanguine about progress and more inclined to the hereditarian pessimism of eugenics. In Erlangen, the University keenly promoted the science of eugenics.
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