English Explanatory Dictionary

racial hygiene

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An approach to eugenics in Nazi ideology which sought to prevent the supposed contamination of races deemed to be superior from miscegenation.

Word forms

racial hygiene

Etymology

Calque of German Rassenhygiene.

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