eugenicist

[ yoo-jen-uh-sist ]

noun

1. a specialist in measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.
2. an advocate of measures intended to produce a perceived improvement in the human species or a human population.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eugenicist¹

First recorded in 1905–10; eugenic + -ist

Example Sentences

In 1975, he wrote a paper titled “The Case for Passive Eugenics” and would later, in a letter to eugenicist Robert Graham, a millionaire businessman known for starting a sperm bank for geniuses, clarify his goals.

From Salon

For three decades Taylor had worked to advance eugenicist ideas.

From Salon

Folt also cited “of special significance” her efforts to rectify the university’s checkered past on racial justice — offering honorary degrees to 33 Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II who were denied the chance to continue their USC studies, stripping the name of eugenicist Rufus von KleinSmid from a prominent building and renaming it after Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, a Native American leader, and honoring survivors of the Holocaust with a University Medallion.

From Los Angeles Times

Donald Trump’s creed comes not from our nation’s founding documents but from the “bible of scientific racism” penned by the eugenicist Madison Grant.

From Salon

Grant and his eugenicist comrades strove to make America’s public policies as brutal as the racial science’s coldhearted facts.

From Salon