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bioconservative

bioconservative adjective: characterized by bioconservatism.

Adjective

bioconservative (comparative more bioconservative, superlative most bioconservative)

  1. Characterized by bioconservatism.
    • So what's all that got to do with transhumanism, and why do I think that transhumanists are actually more bioconservative than their opponents?2014, M. Hauskeller, Sex and the Posthuman Condition
    • I will argue that Pet Sematary and The Tommyknockers can fruitfully be read as bioconservative fables, thematic enactments of the kind of worst-case scenarios postulated by theorists such as Bill McKibben, Leon Kass, and Francis Fukuyama.2016, Jacob M. Held, Stephen King and Philosophy, page 48

Noun

bioconservative (plural bioconservatives)

  1. A proponent of bioconservatism.
    • Among the technologies bioconservatives frequently deride are genetic modification of both plants and animals, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, all forms of cloning and radical life extension.2011, Nayef R.F. Al-Rodhan, The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies, page 195
    • The best way to protect the disadvantaged from the inequalities that bioconservatives like McKibben believe will follow from enhancement is not te prevent enhancement, but to ensure that the social institutions we use to distribute enhancement technologies work to protect the least well off and to...2012, Peter Healey, Steve Rayner, Unnatural Selection, page 186

Forms of bioconservative

Adjective
comparativemore bioconservative
superlativemost bioconservative
Noun
pluralbioconservatives

Origin of bioconservative

From bio- + conservative.

Questions about bioconservative

What does bioconservative mean?
Bioconservative means characterized by bioconservatism.
What part of speech is bioconservative?
Bioconservative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bioconservative in the dictionary

  1. bioconjugates
  2. bioconjugation
  3. bioconjugations
  4. bioconnectivity
  5. bioconservatism
  6. bioconservative
  7. bioconservatives
  8. bioconstituent
  9. bioconstituents
  10. bioconstruction
  11. bioconstructions

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