eugenocide
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The elimination of people considered weak or defective in an attempt to improve the gene pool.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations."
- "It was the "first of the modest schemes for the ecological conservation and harvesting of newborns, which we have come to know as the science of eugenocide.""
- "Wolfensberger (1981) refers to the particular effort to eliminate people with disabilities as eugenocide."