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say it: yoo-JEN-iks
eugenics is a noun meaning "the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)". It is pronounced /juˈdʒɛnɪks/ — yoo-JEN-iks. It carries one recorded sense.
the study of methods of improving genetic qualities by selective breeding (especially as applied to human mating)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for eugenics come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.