Genophilia

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Love of one's own relations, tribe, kind or race. rare, uncountable

    "Although cultural Marxists have tried to extirpate it from Western man's memory, there remains the ancient, conservative notion of a nation, one rooted in ancestry, kith and kin, and genophilia."

  2. 2
    Love of children, or a desire to have children. rare, uncountable

    "The tragedy was that the narrator, lacking genophilia, or love of children, should have got his wife with child."

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"Although cultural Marxists have tried to extirpate it from Western man's memory, there remains the ancient, conservative notion of a nation, one rooted in ancestry, kith and kin, and genophilia."

Etymology

Apparently coined by Sir Francis Galton, from geno- + -philia.

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