Dysgenic and Eugenic

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Dysgenic adjective - Pertaining to or causing degeneration in the offspring produced.

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Eugenic is an antonym for dysgenic.

Eugenic adjective - Pertaining to or causing improvement in the offspring produced.

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Dysgenic is an antonym for eugenic.

Nearby Word: eugenics

War is in the highest sense dysgenic rather than eugenic.

Source: Useful Notes / The Holocaust

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