eugenocide
eugenocide noun: the elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
Noun
eugenocide (uncountable)
- The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
- Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations.1971, Intellectual Digest - Volume 2, page 286
- It was the "first of the modest schemes for the ecological conservation and harvesting of newborns, which we have come to know as the science of eugenocide."1971, The Scriblerian - Volumes 4-5, page 99
Forms of eugenocide
| alternative form | eugenicide |
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Origin of eugenocide
Blend of eugenics + genocide.
Questions about eugenocide
- What does eugenocide mean?
- Eugenocide means the elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
- What part of speech is eugenocide?
- Eugenocide is a noun.
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