hygienics
Americannoun
noun
Usage
What does hygienics mean? Hygienics is the science that deals with preserving and promoting health. The word hygiene can be used to mean the same thing. The word hygiene most commonly refers to a collection of practices to promote and preserve health, or a condition involving the use of such practices. In its most popular sense, hygiene refers to habitual actions that help you stay physically healthy, such as washing your hands and brushing your teeth. The related adjective hygienic can mean related to or involving hygiene, promoting good health, or sanitary. Hygienics involves the study of methods for maintaining health and cleanliness on a large scale and in individuals. It is one part of the field of public health and is closely associated with sanitation. The word hygienics is used with a singular verb, as in Hygienics is a growing field of study. Example: Experts in hygienics recommend regularly washing your hands as one of the best ways to prevent the spread of illness.
Etymology
Origin of hygienics
Example Sentences
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The young will learn that if one preaches philosophical hygienics, one must have clean fingernails.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was seldom that she intruded thus upon the mystery of his morning hygienics.
From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James
As a matter of fact, however, the æsthetics of the subject does not seem to have entered the national mind, any more than have the hygienics of the same subject.
From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis
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