eugenicist
noun
a specialist in measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.
eugenist
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a variation of
eugenicist.
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a word derived from
eugenics.
eugenicsnounthe study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by people presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits negative eugenics or encouraging reproduction by people presumed to have inheritable desirable traits positive eugenics.
Example Sentences
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That question," replied Dr. Boehm, "more properly should be addressed to a eugenist, but I shall try to give you the answer.
From City of Endless Night by Milo M. (Milo Milton) Hastings
These are the problems which occur to the eugenist and call for investigation and, if possible, settlement....
From The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics by William E. Kellicott
"In our field," put in Maude Schofield, "I might express the thought this way—the sociologist has had his day; now it is the biologist, the eugenist."
From The War Terror by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
Data bearing upon physique and physiognomy, details of anatomy and function, mind and behaviour will so be co-ordinated as no eugenist has hitherto succeeded in doing.
From The Glands Regulating Personality by Louis Berman M.D.
That is where he joins issue with the religious; it is also his excuse for being a eugenist.
From Art by Clive Bell
