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neo-eugenics

neo-eugenics noun: the use of genetic manipulation to improve human hereditary qualities.

Noun

neo-eugenics (uncountable)

  1. The use of genetic manipulation to improve human hereditary qualities.
    • Despite the striking similarities between eugenics and neo-eugenics, it is important to mark a primary difference: that eugenics was, in some cases, mobilized as a genocidal movement. Even though neo-eugenics aims to eradicate specific bodies—just as eugenic sought—neo-eugenics does not subscribe...2021, David-Jack Fletcher, Age as Disease: Anti-Aging Technologies, Sites and Practices, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 64

Origin of neo-eugenics

From neo- + eugenics.

Questions about neo-eugenics

What does neo-eugenics mean?
Neo-eugenics means the use of genetic manipulation to improve human hereditary qualities.
What part of speech is neo-eugenics?
Neo-eugenics is a noun.

Words near neo-eugenics in the dictionary

  1. Neo-Druidry
  2. neo-druids
  3. neo-Ebionism
  4. neo-Ebionite
  5. neo-eugenic
  6. neo-eugenics
  7. Neo-Europe
  8. Neo-Europes
  9. neo-expressionism
  10. neo-expressionist
  11. neo-expressionistic

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