Relating to or promoting eugenics, or relating to the improvement of human qualities through selective breeding.
From Greek 'eu-' (good) + 'genos' (race/kind) + '-ic'. This word connects to the eugenics movement of the late 1800s-early 1900s, though the '-phenic' variant is more historically associated with 'euphenics' (genetic improvement).
This word emerges from one of the darkest chapters of pseudoscience—eugenics was promoted by seemingly respectable scientists and governments, showing how even bad ideas sound plausible when dressed in Greek-rooted scientific terminology.
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