Lysenkoism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The doctrine that maintained that environmentally acquired characteristics could be inherited; Lamarckism.
  2. The use of pseudoscience in furtherance of an ideology.

Word forms

Lysenkoism

Etymology

From Lysenko + -ism.

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