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Definition: Eugenics |
EugenicsNoun1. The study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eugenics" was first used: 1883. (references) |
| Antonym: dysgenics (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Improvement | Noun: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; Verb: advancement; advance; (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eugenics |
| English words defined with "eugenics": Francis Galton ♦ Galton ♦ Sir Francis Galton. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Case of Eugenics (1915) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It leads to eugenics rather than to esthetic. |
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| "Eugenics" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 54.84% of the time. "Eugenics" is used about 62 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 54.84% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.94% | 26 | 68,323 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.23% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eugenics | 164 |
eugenics galton | 15 |
eugenics movement | 10 |
history of eugenics | 7 |
eugenics nazi | 5 |
the eugenics war | 3 |
eugenics law state | 3 |
eugenics margaret sanger | 3 |
eugenics definition | 3 |
american eugenics society | 3 |
abortion eugenics | 3 |
eugenics negative | 2 |
eugenics holocaust | 2 |
eugenics iq | 2 |
engineering eugenics genetic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eugenics"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | eugjenikë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | اليوجينا علم تحسين النسل. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | евгеника. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | eugenika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | eugenik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eugenica, eugenetica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | علم اصلاح نژادانسان , به نژادی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | eugeniikka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | eugénisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Eugenik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλλιγένεια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שפור "'זע, אב' יק". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fajegészségtan, eugenetika. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | eugenetica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ユーコン准州 (eunos, euphemism, European television satellite, Eutelsat, euthanasia, euthanasie, humor, submarine, U-boat, UFO, ufology, unidentified flying object, usance, usance bill, used car, user, user interface, user-friendly, users, utility, utility program, utility room, utopia, U-turn, youth, youth hostel, youth market, Yugoslavia, Yukon Territory), 優"学 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ユージェニックス , ゆうせいがく. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jeih-gheintyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eugenicsay eugenia. (various references) eugenie (eugeny). (various references) евгеника. (various references) eugenika. (various references) eugenesia. (various references) eugenik. (various references) การปรับปรุงลักษ"ะทางพันธุกรรมของมนุษย์ให้"ีขึ้น. (various references) genetik olarak insan ırkının ıslahı bilimi, öjenik. (various references) "вгеніка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | eugenes. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Eugenics" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ecumenics, eugencist, Eugenes, Eugeni, Eugenios, eugentics, euggenics, euxenic, ugenic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eugenics" (pronounced yuwje"niks) |
| 5 | -e" n i k s | calisthenics, Phenix. |
| 4 | -n i k s | avionics, beatniks, clinics, conics, cynics, electronics, ethnics, harmonics, histrionics, ionics, kibbutzniks, mechanics, microelectronics, mnemonics, Nucleonics, onyx, panics, Phoenix, phonics, pyrotechnics, refuseniks, sonics, sputniks, Technics, tectonics, tonics. |
| 3 | -i k s | academics, acoustics, acrobatics, acrylics, aerobatics, aerobics, aerodynamics, aeronautics, aesthetics, affix, alcoholics, analgesics, analytics, anesthetics, anorexics, antibiotics, antics, apparatchiks, appendix, asthmatics, astronautics, astrophysics, athletics, atmospherics, attics, automatics, ballistics, basics, batiks, bioethics, biologics, biophysics, bishoprics, Calix, calyx, catholics, ceramics, cervix, characteristics, charismatics, civics, classics, clerics, comics, cosmetics, Criminalistics, critics, demographics, diabetics, diagnostics, diuretics, domestics, dynamics, eccentrics, econometrics, economics, electrics, electrodynamics, epics, epidemics, ergonomics, ethics, exotics, fabrics, fanatics, forensics, generics, genetics, geometrics, geopolitics, geriatrics, gimmicks, graphics, gymnastics, helix, hemodynamics, heroics, hieroglyphics, hydraulics, hypnotics, hysterics, informatics, italics, kinetics, limericks, linguistics, logistics, lyrics, macroeconomics, Magnetics, mathematics, matrix, mavericks, medics, metaphysics, metrics, microeconomics, micrographics, mimics, mosaics, mystics, narcotics, numismatics, obstetrics, onomastics, optics, orthodontics, oryx, paramedics, Pediatrics, phonetics, photovoltaics, physics, plastics, polemics, prefix, prosthetics, psychics, publics, relics, reprographics, republics, robotics, romantics, semantics, semiotics, skeptics, specifics, statistics, stoics, suffix, synthetics, systematics, tactics, theatrics, therapeutics, thermoplastics, topics, toxics, tropics, workaholics. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: eugenic. | |
-2 letters: cueing, genies, genius, incuse, nieces, seeing, signee. | |
-3 letters: cense, cines, cuing, ensue, genes, genic, genie, genus, guise, incus, negus, niece, scene, segni, segue, seine, sengi, siege, since, singe, suing, using. | |
-4 letters: cees, cigs, cine, cues, ecus, egis, engs, gees, gene, gens, genu, gien, gies, gins, gnus, guns, ices, nice, seen, sene, sice. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-g-i-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: urgencies. | |
+2 letters: eugenicist, insurgence, pungencies, resecuring, sequencing, succeeding, turgencies. | |
+3 letters: centrifuges, divulgences, eugenicists, indulgences, insurgences, persecuting, subagencies, superceding. | |
+4 letters: congruencies, deliquescing, insurgencies, reconfigures, recrudescing, repugnancies, rescheduling, resurrecting, sepulchering, sunscreening. | |
+5 letters: clearinghouse, counterimages, countersigned, cunningnesses, eugeosyncline, genuflections, grouchinesses, housecleaning, incongruences, prescheduling, recentrifuges, superagencies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 75 67 65 6E 69 63 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..- --. . -. .. -.-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01110101 01100111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E u g e n i c s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0075 0067 0065 006E 0069 0063 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3987737180756985 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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