genoism means discrimination on the basis of genetic profile. It carries an Arena rating of 1302, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, genoism ranks #248 of 17,138 for Most Incisive Words, #828 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #2,928 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #3,753 of 17,151 for The Improbable.
Why “genoism” is a great word
Discrimination on the basis of a person's genetic profile or genotype, coined in 1997 by filmmaker Andrew Niccol from the combining form geno- (from Greek genos, 'race, kind, offspring') and the suffix -ism (denoting a system, principle, or practice). Unlike 'eugenics,' which seeks to sculpt future populations, or 'ableism,' which judges present ability, genoism is a pre-emptive sentence passed on potential futures written in DNA. It is the cold refusal of a loan based on a coded sequence, the silent algorithmic rejection from a job pool, and the social chill that meets a child whose genome suggests a distant decline—a bureaucracy of fate that condemns the living for the crimes they have not yet, and may never, commit, reducing a life to its most probable failures long before they ever occur.
Etymology
Coined by Andrew Niccol, director and writer of the 1997 film Gattaca.
noun
- Discrimination on the basis of genetic profile.
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