euthenics

American  

[yoo-then-iks] / yuˈθɛn ɪks /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. a science concerned with bettering the condition of human beings through the improvement of their environment.

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euthenics British  

/ juːˈθɛnɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the study of the control of the environment, esp with a view to improving the health and living standards of the human race

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Other Word Forms

• euthenist noun

Etymology

Origin of euthenics

1900–05; < Greek euthēn ( eîn ) to be well off, prosper + -ics

Example Sentences

There is no short-cut by way of euthenics, merely.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

In so far, then, as euthenics is actually providing man with more favorable surroundings,—not with ostensibly more favorable surroundings which, in reality, are unfavorable—there can be no antagonism between it and eugenics.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

In this sense, euthenics and eugenics bear the same relation to human progress as a man's two legs do to his locomotion.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

But this illustration certainly gives no ground for a belief that euthenics is sufficient to prolong one's life beyond the inherited limit.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul

Its only conflict with euthenics appertains to such euthenic measures as impair the adaptability of the race to the better environment they are trying to make.

From Applied Eugenics by Popenoe, Paul