genesic

[ juh-nes-ik, -nee-sik ]

adjective

1. pertaining to genesis or reproduction; genetic.

Word History and Origins

Origin of genesic¹

genes(is) + -ic

Example Sentences

Nations have not yet elevated the energy of genesic function to the dignity of an energy.

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He will take his pleasure elsewhere, for man is ever in pursuit of the woman who experiences the genesic spasm.

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"The genesic need may be considered," writes Féré, "as a need of evacuation; the choice is determined by the excitations which render the evacuation more agreeable."

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The nineteenth century is, in my eyes, a genesic era, in which new principles are elaborated, but in which nothing that is written shall endure.

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