eugenic
eugenic — adjective
- eugenicpositive
- more eugeniccomparative
- most eugenicsuperlative
1. describing ideas or policies that aim to improve human populations by controllin
describing ideas or policies that aim to improve human populations by controlling who is allowed to have children — a set of beliefs now widely condemned for their links to racism and Nazi ideology.
Folake wrote her university paper on eugenic policies in early twentieth-century America.
collocation: eugenic policies
The museum exhibit showed how eugenic thinking influenced immigration laws a century ago.
eugenic thinking + influenced [noun]
Esteban was shocked to learn that eugenic sterilisation programmes continued into the 1970s.
Ilan read his class a eugenic argument from a 1920s textbook and asked them to find its errors.
Ada's grandmother was denied marriage under the country's old eugenic marriage laws.
- eugenical
a less common variant with the identical meaning
- dysgenic
causing or tending to cause deterioration in the human gene pool
用法筆記
Almost always used critically today; describes discredited historical practices and ideologies. Rarely used in a neutral or positive sense outside discussions of early 20th-century history.