CACOGENICS

dysgenics, cacogenics

(noun) the study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

cacogenics (uncountable)

(medicine) The opposite of eugenics; the aggregation of factors, through adverse sexual selection and reproduction, tending to promote bad genetic characteristics in people.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

2 April 2025

COVERT

(adjective) secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; “covert actions by the CIA”; “covert funding for the rebels”


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