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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 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.