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

If they had had more euthenics, they should have lived longer.

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

It is, however, a phase of euthenics, which deals with the environmental factors that affect the individual life.

From Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Bigelow, Maurice Alpheus

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