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Dysgenics

Definition: Dysgenics

Dysgenics

Noun

1. The study of the operation of factors causing degeneration in the type of offspring produced.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Dysgenics

Synonym: cacogenics (n). (additional references)
Antonym: eugenics (n). (additional references)

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Misspellings: Dysgenics

Misspellings

"Dysgenics" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ddysgais, dysgonic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Dysgenics

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-i-n-s-s-y"

-1 letter: dysgenic.

-2 letters: cessing, designs, dingeys, dyeings, ecdysis, syndics, yessing.

-3 letters: ceding, cyesis, deigns, design, dinges, dingey, dyeing, dyings, gneiss, scends, signed, singed, singes, synced, syndic.

-4 letters: cedis, cines, cissy, deign, dices, dicey, dines, dinge, dings, dingy, discs, dying, dynes, eying, genic, nides, scend, sedgy, segni, sends, sengi, sices, sides, signs, since, sines, singe, sings.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-g-i-n-s-s-y"
 

+4 letters: declassifying.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Dysgenics


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 79 73 67 65 6E 69 63 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01111001 01110011 01100111 01100101 01101110 01101001 01100011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#121 &#115 &#103 &#101 &#110 &#105 &#99 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0079 0073 0067 0065 006E 0069 0063 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

389185737180756985

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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