genophilia

Noun

genophilia (uncountable)

1. (rare) Love of one's own relations, tribe, kind or race.
   • Although cultural Marxists have tried to extirpate it from Western man's memory, there remains the ancient, conservative notion of a nation, one rooted in ancestry, kith and kin, and genophilia.2007 September 11, MFOgilvie, “Genocide Against Westerners”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet)
   • Some critics have maintained that (unlike modern nationalism, which is a creation of the 19th century nation state) authentic nationalism (as the Latin 'natio' would suggest) must be based in some form of genophilia and the sharing of ancestors in which sense The Vatican does not qualify as a...2013, James Ohwofasa Akpeninor, Merger Politics of Nigeria and Surge of Sectarian Violence, →ISBN, page 317
2. (rare) Love of children, or a desire to have children.
   • The tragedy was that the narrator, lacking genophilia, or love of children, should have got his wife with child.1950, The Manchester Guardian Weekly - Volume 63, page 171
   • There is a suggestion that the relationship between the fertility of the women and of their parents is closer in the group practising contraception (where perhaps genetic and nurtural factors for genophilia come into play).1953, “The Inheritance of Fertility”, in Eugenics Review, page 75