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neoeugenics

neoeugenics is the alternative spelling of neo-eugenics.

Meaning of neo-eugenics

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

Questions about neoeugenics

What is neoeugenics the alternative spelling of?
Neoeugenics is the alternative spelling of neo-eugenics.

Words near neoeugenics in the dictionary

  1. neoepitopes
  2. neoepitopic
  3. neoeriocitrin
  4. neoethnicities
  5. neoethnicity
  6. neoeugenics
  7. neoevolution
  8. neoevolutionism
  9. neoevolutionist
  10. neoevonoside
  11. neoexpression

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