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    EUGENICS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)play

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("eugenics" is a kind of...):

    bioscience; life science (any of the branches of natural science dealing with the structure and behavior of living organisms)

    Antonym:

    dysgenics (the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced)

    Derivation:

    eugenic (pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced)

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