Eugenic (Adjective)
Meaning
Pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The government launched a eugenic program to reduce the incidence of genetic disorders in the population through education and premarital screenings.
- Some historians argue that Plato's philosophy included eugenic ideas, such as selective breeding of citizens to create a superior society.
- The goal of the fertility clinic's new eugenic approach is to use advanced genetic testing to minimize the risk of inherited diseases.
- The development of gene editing technologies like CRISPR has raised questions about the ethics of using eugenic principles to shape human evolution.
- In the early 20th century, eugenic thinking was influential in the passage of laws that prohibited people with intellectual disabilities from marrying and reproducing.