eugenicist

American  

[yoo-jen-uh-sist] / yuˈdʒɛn ə sɪst /

Also eugenist

noun

1. a specialist in measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.

2. an advocate of measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.

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Etymology

Origin of eugenicist

First recorded in 1905–10; eugenic + -ist

Example Sentences

I’ve asked the White House and Department of Health and Human Services for comment on the echoes of eugenicist thinking in contemporary government policies but haven’t received replies.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

She wrote that environment and education might just overcome almost any disadvantage, which is not really in line with eugenicist thinking.

From Scientific American • Sep. 21, 2023

The centuries-long cultural campaign in favor of procreation is one side of a historically eugenicist coin, and the other is even darker.

From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023

One of the leading pioneers of the anti-masturbation crusade was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg — a pious Seventh-day Adventist and eugenicist — who ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a world-renowned health resort in Michigan.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2021

In 1924, Hermann Werner Siemens, the German eugenicist and Nazi sympathizer, proposed a twin study that advanced Galton’s proposal by meticulously separating identical twins from fraternal twins.*

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee